New FTP commands

hinko.kocevar at cetrtapot.si hinko.kocevar at cetrtapot.si
Fri Oct 21 10:12:23 UTC 2005


Rob Landley wrote:
> On Friday 14 October 2005 08:50, hinko.kocevar at cetrtapot.si wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I've need simple busybox ftp to perform some additional actions on FTP
>>server such as delete a file, append to a file and list servers
>>directory. Here is the patch...
> 
> 
> Interesting.
> 
> I have some user interface concerns.  The problem is that typing "ftp" 
> normally gives you an interactive prompt, and this isn't interactive (and 
> probably shouldn't be).  It needs a different name than just ftp.
> 
> How does ftpget differ from the ftp functionality of wget, anyway?  That's not 
> an area I've looked into yet...

Me neither, but at first glance it seems little different - It might be 
of better ftpcmd() from wget.c for sending ftp commands to avoid login 
in for every command...

regards,
hinko



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