Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 12:48:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Mr M P Searle <csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk> To: scott@statsci.com Cc: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca, brian@krumm.commline.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anybody ported /usr/bin/fetch to SunOS? Message-ID: <14991.199702241248@crocus.csv.warwick.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <m0vytnC-0006uFC@apple.statsci.com> from "Scott Blachowicz" at Feb 23, 97 10:21:42 pm
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> > Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca> wrote: > > > If all you want is the http and ftp downloads in one package, you > > might consider trying to port ftp(1) from OpenBSD. Supposedly > > it's a rough equivalent to fetch(1). > > Or something like the "wget" package (that can be grabbed from > > ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu > > which, I think, gets it from its master site in Japan(?)) that can do both > http & ftp grabbing....from its README: > > GNU Wget is a freely available network utility to retrieve files from > the World Wide Web using HTTP and FTP, the two most widely used > Internet protocols. It works non-interactively, thus enabling work in > the background, after having logged off. > > The recursive retrieval of HTML pages, as well as FTP sites is > supported -- you can use Wget to make mirrors of archives and home > ...etc... > If all you need is being able to grab ftp and http, not the extra stuff wget does, then lynx -dump does the same thing.
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