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Eddie Chen <echen@nyx.com> writes:

>          On my AIX and Linux system we don't have fetch installed. I
> Googled  "fetch", can't found the download  URL for "fetch".

If you need the same behaviour from your ftp clients on all platforms,
you will need to install a different ftp client on at least some of
them.  The native ftp(1) programs are quite different on all three of
those platforms are quite different.

I hear ncftp is nice.


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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
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