All the other ftp programs I've seen support -p to mean switch into passive mode by default. This is very useful, since so many places (such as fencepost :() are configured to only work with passive mode.
Printing a command line prompt when not on a tty seems very obscure by comparison. How about leaving that as --prompt only, and changing -p (aka --passive, I suppose) to do the passive mode thing? Thanks, Karl
