From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 3 20:42:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.halplant.com (ip68-100-145-31.nv.nv.cox.net [68.100.145.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40B7537B400 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 20:42:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.halplant.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3212A1DF; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 23:42:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 23:42:34 -0400 From: Andrew J Caines To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: ftp client Message-ID: <20020604034234.GB4964@hal9000.halplant.com> Reply-To: Andrew J Caines Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-PGP-Fingerprint: C59A 2F74 1139 9432 B457 0B61 DDF2 AA61 67C3 18A1 X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.6-RC X-URL: http://halplant.com:88/ Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG uwi, > I need an ftp client that can download stuff in the background. You can use "ftp" non-interactively, however the native tool set includes fetch, which will probably be more useful to you. See ftp(1) and fetch(1). If you look in the ports collection, there is a whole category for ftp which has many ftp clients of all shapes, sizes and colours. As if all that wasn't enough, the Perl LWP module includes tools like "lwp-download" which can handle simple requests. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message