Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 14:20:02 -0700 (PDT) From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.COM> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/4670: /usr/bin/fetch fails to ftp a file ncftp can Message-ID: <199710052120.OAA10190@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/4670; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.COM>
To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/4670: /usr/bin/fetch fails to ftp a file ncftp can
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 14:13:55 -0700
> well.. basicly the output tells you all you need.. when you login,
> the file pub/unix/mail/.../mutt isn't avail.. it turns out that the
> ftp server decides to dump you in the /pub directory instead of the
> root directory... so you end up duplicating the pub...
>
> now the question is, should we simply add a / to the front of the path
> in fetch? it would fix it...
I'd say yes. It is the implimentation of least surprize. If I wanted a
relative path, I'd have specified it as:
ftp://ftp.foo.com/./some/dir/path/filewanted.tar.gz
--
-- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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