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To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Subject: Re: ftp -o xxx 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "26 Jun 2000 10:30:01 +0200."
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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 10:14:01 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <xzpu2eg26ba.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> writes:
: > fetch supports using -o to secify the output filename.  However, ftp
: > doesn't.  Since fetch won't work with socks, I've been using ftp for
: > all my fetching needs with ports for the past several years.  Now,
: > I've run into snag.  Some ports fetch stuff into subdirectories using
: > -o, so I was thinking of adding this to ftp.  Comments?
: 
: Wouldn't it be better to add socks support to fetch(1)?

It would be better, maybe, but harder.

Warner


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