From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 17:50:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5966037B401 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:50:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 23100 invoked by uid 100); 25 Jan 2001 01:50:09 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14959.34385.670249.138287@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:50:09 -0600 (CST) To: "jhunt@blaz.niinet.net" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: default ftp program in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <200101250129.f0P1Taj08597@blaz.niinet.net> References: <14959.25986.738397.479444@guru.mired.org> <200101250129.f0P1Taj08597@blaz.niinet.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG jhunt@blaz.niinet.net types: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:30:10 -0600 (CST), Mike Meyer said: > | I don't know what you're comparing it to, but ncftp is available for > | Linux, and to me is mostly just adds convenience changes to ftp (at > | least for the early versions of ncftp). > What I like about the FreeBSD version of ftp, it when you are > downloading a file it actually SHOWS the status of whats going on. I think every version of ncftp does that. I've seen a number of different ways, though. Ncftp shows a line like so: freedice206_37.lzh: ETA: 0:03 352.17/612.50 kB 100.59 kB/s With the values on the right being updated as the download goes on. ,mike -- Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message