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To: Sujal Patel <smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: review: ftpget final source 
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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 22:25:48 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 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 :-)

Well, if you think about it, since ftp://blah/blah is just as
reasonable a URL as http://bleh is, why not call it HURL?  An acronym
for Haul-URL (over to my machine).

OK, so maybe I'm reaching a little.. :-)

					Jordan