On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:33:14PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 01 Aug 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:41:56PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > Try lftp. I know of no better ftp client. But it is command-line, which > > > is > > > just as well: the transfer engine is well cared for, and not a secondary > > > thing to the GUI. > > > > I've got lftp installed but haven't tried it. I will. However, I would > > have thought that wget would be the cat's meow since its what > > debootstrap uses. Perhaps they only use it because its small. > > wget is for script use. lftp is for interactive use :-)
Except that for a download that I have to restart 5 or 10 times, its easier to put the url in a file and use wget, or for rsync I put the whole command line in a file, pound-hack it, chmod +x and away it goes. If lftp had a download queue that was persistant between invocations, it would be useful. > > And AFAIK curl is supposed to be better than wget for script use, but I > won't go into that topic. > I'll look into it. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
