On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Dave Eckhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hget is similar to almost all plan 9 programs >> and (not surprisingly) different from many >> modern unix programs in that, by default, >> it writes to standard output. > > This may seem idiosyncratic, but it has a big benefit. > > On various machines I have wget, curl, fetch, etc., and
Not completely true. Curl works as expected, I use it regularly. curl http://lsub.org > b.html % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 6623 100 6623 0 0 20232 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 41393 mymachine:/tmp paurea$ cat b.html <html> <head> etc... -- - curiosity sKilled the cat
