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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Time to retire fetch? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jan 1998 10:09:42 EST."
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Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 17:57:17 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <199801051509.KAA23284@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman write
s:
><<On Mon, 05 Jan 1998 02:03:56 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.co
>m> said:
>
>> I just noticed that FTP in -current now supports http:// style
>> fetches, a feature which seems to have crept in under my nose during
>> the sync with NetBSD's ftp client.

For once I agree with Garrett (this has become a disturbing trend
lately, I must be getting older or something... :-).

Ftp is named after the protocol it implements, and it should that way...

Fetch is more open for interpretation.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."