k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes: > All the other ftp programs I've seen support -p to mean switch into > passive mode by default. This is very useful, since so many places > (such as fencepost :() are configured to only work with passive mode. > > Printing a command line prompt when not on a tty seems very obscure by > comparison. How about leaving that as --prompt only, and changing -p > (aka --passive, I suppose) to do the passive mode thing?
+1. It seems inetutils-ftp already has support for passive mode, so it is likely just a matter of changing the command line parameter semantics. /Simon
