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From: Sujal Patel <smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu>
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On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Peter Wemm wrote:

> Also, since it does both ftp and http fetches, ftpget is an increasingly
> inappropriate name..  Could we rename it to something like (say) netget..
> (I know, that's a boring and uninspiring name...)

Why not make the program take a URL as an argument and then call it
"urlget" or something like that?  At least it's a little better then
netget :-)


Sujal