... lets agree that the FTP client will be the last thing added to /rescue that is outside the original charter.
I sincerely hope it will be. Mostly because I have a large chunk of new code to contribute that's broken and sitting in pieces all over my hard disk at the moment. (Working out APIs for new libraries is not a simple task. <sigh>)
I don't have a lot of time for FreeBSD hacking, and this thread has consumed a rather sizable percentage of it.
If we're going to add an FTP client, lets pick the one with the best functionality for the job -- /usr/bin/ftp. I may not know the complete URL to the bits I need, and if so with fetch you're still screwed.
On the other hand, /usr/bin/ftp also has drawbacks: It requires ncurses (one reason I am interested in dropping vi is to shed the ncurses library and the need for a termcap file), it's considerably larger than fetch, and it doesn't support HTTP.
But you are right that if you need to get a file from somewhere, you probably don't already know the exact location of that file, and ftp's browsing ability would be very useful then. Harumph ....
It's a very good suggestion; I'll have to get back to you on it.
Tim
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