From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 29 04:53:10 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA12398 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 04:53:10 -0800 Received: from cabri.obs-besancon.fr (cabri.obs-besancon.fr [193.52.184.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA12379 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 04:53:03 -0800 Received: by cabri.obs-besancon.fr (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA03916; Wed, 29 Nov 95 13:52:47 +0100 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 95 13:52:47 +0100 Message-Id: <9511291252.AA03916@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> From: Jean-Marc Zucconi To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, FreeBSD-ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511291038.CAA01516@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> (asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Subject: Re: misc/colorls X-Mailer: Emacs Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Satoshi Asami writes: > Maybe we can write a small wrapper to ncftp, which will solve all > these problems, and put it in the base system (so no FETCH_DEPENDS). > (No Jean-Marc, I'm not going to give up on ncftp -- the "progression > meter" is too cool to pass up, and is actually *useful* for people > like me (sitting behind phone lines). ;) I am also behind a phone line (and sometimes at 2400bps) :-) I wrote a ftpget replacement, and it has a (primitive) progression indicator, it should work if you are behind a firewall, and is compatible with ncftp. The program is very simple since it uses the ftp code in src/release/sysintall/. Interested? Jean-Marc _____________________________________________________________________________ Jean-Marc Zucconi Observatoire de Besancon F 25010 Besancon cedex PGP Key: finger jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr =============================================================================