From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 24 04:49:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA17764 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 04:49:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from crocus.csv.warwick.ac.uk (csubl@crocus.csv.warwick.ac.uk [137.205.192.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA17759 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 04:48:59 -0800 (PST) From: Mr M P Searle Message-Id: <14991.199702241248@crocus.csv.warwick.ac.uk> Received: by crocus.csv.warwick.ac.uk id MAA14991; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 12:48:12 GMT Subject: Re: anybody ported /usr/bin/fetch to SunOS? To: scott@statsci.com Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 12:48:07 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca, brian@krumm.commline.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Scott Blachowicz" at Feb 23, 97 10:21:42 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Tim Vanderhoek 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.