On 2010 Jun 27 (Sun) at 12:41:21 +0200 (+0200), Alexander Schrijver wrote:
:Now it just does nothing, like it is supposed to (The second is with your fix applied):
:
:$ echo 'mget -r . ' | ftp ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu     
:Segmentation fault (core dumped) 
:$ echo 'mget -r . ' | ./ftp ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu
:$ 
:

This fix was just committed.  Many thanks for the report!

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