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Date:      Thu, 26 Jun 1997 11:31:33 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Cc:        tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp complete.c fetch.c util.c Makefile          cmds.c cmdtab.c domacro.c extern.h ftp.1 ftp.c ftp_v
Message-ID:  <199706260201.LAA03854@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199706251401.KAA23342@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Jun 25, 97 10:01:41 am"

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Garrett Wollman stands accused of saying:
> <<On 25 Jun 1997 13:29:23 +0200, Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de> said:
> 
> > Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> >> - the ability to access files using either the ftp or http protocols,
> >> and use http proxies for ftp transfers.
> 
> > Does this mean we can nuke fetch(1)?
> 
> No, it does not.

Can you enumerate the cases where the new ftp doesn't cover fetch's
behaviour?  I'm all for pandering to your bloat-reductionist tendencies
in this case, and would be happy to do all the work to that end.

> -GAWollman

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