Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 07:22:19 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@altair.mayn.de> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <19991003072219.F728@altair.mayn.de>
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Bcc: Subject: Re: FTP directory listing with ftpio(3) and fetch(3) Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <xzpwvt7au87.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >Type 'man 3 fetch', scroll down to the BUGS section, and see the >light. Next, scroll back up to the AUTHORS section and find out who to >contact :) (fetch stuff) BTW.. although risking to be off-topic by miles, I always liked the way how NetBSD's ftp(1) (since 1.4 or so) implemented http and ftp URL fetching and thus eliminated the need for a fetch(1) command. Couldn't the FreeBSD ftp(1) be enhanced that way, [ObTopic, slime slime] to use fetch(3) for that purpose? (Or just "steal" the NetBSD implementation, FreeBSD aren't the Knights who say NIH, I would hope.) I'd really love to have yet another superfluous userland tool like fetch(1) go away, especially because it collides in namespace with another fetch program and the functionality could be very well integrated with the ftp utility. Personally, I find fetch(1) a bad idea. Cc'ied to -questions, for obvious reasons, thanks for your attention :). mkb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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