Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 10:30:51 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami), ache@nagual.ru, jkh@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: various 'fetch' errors Message-ID: <199607181630.KAA00797@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 17 Jul 1996 17:19:23 PDT
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: > Oh, and I remember you also said you'll implement a "dummy mode" that : > will let fetch do all the jobs of the ports manager while he's : > sleeping. : : Ooooh, that's a slippery slope, Satoshi - pretty soon it's doing the : job of the ports manager while he's awake, too, and doing it better : and faster. Before you know it, you've been replaced by a button. :-) Heck, I'd be happy with a lpr-like interface to fetch. If there was a fetchd running in the background, and I said "fetch --background ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/R6.1/tars/xc-1.tar.gz --after tomorrow" it would queue the file for fetching and let me knwo when it is done. That way I could queue up 20-30 things to get and then go to sleep. I've wanted this feature in an FTP program for a long time and have *NEVER* seen one with it.[*] Warner [*] Well, sort of doing some sort of at kludge. I want it automatic!
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