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Date:      Tue, 28 Nov 1995 10:38:01 -0500 (EST)
From:      Marc Ramirez <mrami@mramirez.sy.yale.edu>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, FreeBSD-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: misc/colorls
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951128103448.2639G-100000@mramirez.sy.yale.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199511280348.TAA25824@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU>

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On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Satoshi Asami wrote:

>  * I notice that colorls DEPENDS on ncftp2.2.  Is this really necessary?  It 
>  * seems a little overkill ...
> 
> Well, it FETCH_DEPENDS on ncftp, which means it is used for fetching
> only (i.e., not if you are using the package).  And yes it is
> necessary, the stock ncftp can't handle the "pack up on-the-fly"
> option of wu-ftpd.... :<

This works for me wih the old ncftp...

# Usage: get hostname filename

get() {
if [ \! -e `basename $2` ]
then 
        ( echo cd `dirname $2`; echo get `basename $2`; echo quit ) \
        | ncftp -r -d 15 -V 0 $1
fi
}

Marc.



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