Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 16:53:48 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) To: jehamby@lightside.com Cc: csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu, imp@village.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: discussion of porting Ports to other things? Message-ID: <199610162353.QAA02105@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.94.961016113735.2206A-100000@covina.lightside.com> (message from Jake Hamby on Wed, 16 Oct 1996 11:41:34 -0700 (PDT))
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* md5 is easy. But fetch is impossible! Literally. It relies on aspects * of stdio that are only in 4.4BSD and there seems to be no portable * equivalent. This is one hellishly non-portable program! You may want to use ncftp. That's what we used to do, at least that thing compiles on many platforms. Satoshi
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