> 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. Will commit something along those lines today/tomorrow.
