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Date:      Thu, 22 Sep 1994 17:35:22 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Adam David <adam@veda.is>
To:        pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina)
Cc:        ache@freefall.cdrom.com, adam@freefall.cdrom.com, alm@freefall.cdrom.com, ats@freefall.cdrom.com, bde@freefall.cdrom.com, csgr@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-ports@freefall.cdrom.com, davidg@freefall.cdrom.com, dfr@freefall.cdrom.com, dyson@freefall.cdrom.com, gclarkii@freefall.cdrom.com, gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com, guido@freefall.cdrom.com, hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, joerg@freefall.cdrom.com, julian@freefall.cdrom.com, jvh@freefall.cdrom.com, karl@freefall.cdrom.com, martin@freefall.cdrom.com, nate@freefall.cdrom.com, paul@freefall.cdrom.com, phk@freefall.cdrom.com, proven@freefall.cdrom.com, rgrimes@freefall.cdrom.com, rich@freefall.cdrom.com, se@freefall.cdrom.com, sean@freefall.cdrom.com, sef@freefall.cdrom.com, smace@freefall.cdrom.com, sos@freefall.cdrom.com, swallace@freefall.cdrom.com, torstenb@freefall.cdrom.com, wollman@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/net/ncftp/patches patch-aa
Message-ID:  <199409221735.RAA02972@veda.is>
In-Reply-To: <199409221711.KAA12730@precipice.Shockwave.COM> from "Paul Traina" at Sep 22, 94 10:11:31 am

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> NCFTP is not one of those tools that 'everyone' has to have.

I think the reasoning behind needing ncftp is that pkg_install relies on it
to fetch files. Granted, the same is possible with ftp, but trickier to
implement -- or a couple of extra features could be added to ftp to make
it less tricky (for instance .netrc accepted in current directory).

--
Adam David  <adam@veda.is>



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