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 -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/