On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:33:25AM -0400, Nick ! wrote:
| On 3/24/07, Ted Unangst <ted.unangst@gmail.com> wrote:
| >On 3/21/07, Paul Irofti <bulibuta@gmail.com> 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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