Re: fetch(1) / fetch(3) patchkit available

1999-05-28 Thread Joe Abley
On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 11:27:20AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > What about a non-interactive command for pushing stuff via ftp/http ? > This has always been lacking IMHO (``ftp -n < gotchas). > > I haven't actually looked at libfetch, but I would think that the > functionality should be there.

Re: fetch(1) / fetch(3) patchkit available

1999-05-28 Thread Brian Somers
> Brian Somers writes: > > What about a non-interactive command for pushing stuff via ftp/http ? > > This has always been lacking IMHO (``ftp -n < > gotchas). > > > > I haven't actually looked at libfetch, but I would think that the > > functionality should be there. > > Libfetch supports FTP

Re: fetch(1) / fetch(3) patchkit available

1999-05-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Brian Somers writes: > What about a non-interactive command for pushing stuff via ftp/http ? > This has always been lacking IMHO (``ftp -n < gotchas). > > I haven't actually looked at libfetch, but I would think that the > functionality should be there. Libfetch supports FTP uploads (no HTTP u

Re: fetch(1) / fetch(3) patchkit available

1999-05-28 Thread Brian Somers
[.] > We need generic FTP and HTTP functionality for a variety of > applications (first and foremost, sysinstall and pkg_add(1)), and we > need a command-line interface to the FTP and HTTP protocols > (fetch(1)). We also need an interactive interface to the FTP protocol > (for doing stuff like

Re: fetch(1) / fetch(3) patchkit available

1999-05-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Sheldon Hearn writes: > On 28 May 1999 10:29:44 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > I brushed the dust off a bunch of patches I had for libfetch and the > > fetch(1) command and made a patchkit of them [...] > Your mail has brought to mind a question I've never managed to sort out > in my head a

fetch(1) / fetch(3) patchkit available

1999-05-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Hey guys, I brushed the dust off a bunch of patches I had for libfetch and the fetch(1) command and made a patchkit of them (in the great tradition pioneered by messrs. Schmidt, Dillon and Yokota). Some of it is five month old patches I never got around to comitting, some of it is new code, and so