In the last episode (Aug 17), Alexey M. Zelkin said:
> Man page for telnetd(8) references to bftp(1) which will be installed
> into /usr/ucb/bftp and of course does not exists. Can someone
> describe in few words is this staff still supported ? If so, there
> bftp(1) staff can be received/downloaded ? Otherwise I think it's
> good idea to remove this staff from manpage and probably from source
> code.
I did an Altavista search for bftp and it looks like it's a background
FTP client. Original source is at http://astro.temple.edu/~yxue , and
a '97 paper re-implementing it is at http://renoir.vill.edu/~yhang .
It looks like ports/ftp/ncftp3 has all the features of bftp (scheduled
background transfers, auto-resume, multiple file xfers) except it
doens't email the user then the transfer is done.
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