Date: Wed, 29 Nov 95 13:52:47 +0100 From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, FreeBSD-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/colorls Message-ID: <9511291252.AA03916@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> In-Reply-To: <199511291038.CAA01516@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> (asami@cs.berkeley.edu)
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>>>>> 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
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