On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:33:25AM -0400, Nick ! wrote:
| On 3/24/07, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| >On 3/21/07, Paul Irofti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| >> - the fact that ftp can handle http makes me ponder what happened to
| >> the KISS principle?
| >
| >ftp is very simple. there are files on the internet. i want them on
| >my computer. ftp puts them there. how much simpler can it be? :)
|
| But that's what wget is for.
$ which ftp wget
/usr/bin/ftp
wget: Command not found.
wget has its uses (recursion comes to mind), but for simply
transferring files ftp(1) is all i need.
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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