Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 18:55:07 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert), hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Running FTP as a slave process ... Message-ID: <8175.830915707@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 May 1996 10:10:46 %2B0930." <199605010040.KAA23022@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> FTP install sucks, I want to blow. (If you get the picture). Hey, I take some offense at that. It was actually pretty hard to make this work without temp files (especially when your target is split into multiple pieces) and it's also one of our most genuinely USEFUL installation methods. I get a lot of positive feedback on it. > > There's also ncftp (which is less ideal). > > As far as I can tell it's purely designed for interactive work. Not at all. The ports collection has been using it for non-interactive fetches for over a year! Jordan
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