New FTP commands

[hinko.kocevar at cetrtapot.si]

walter harms wrote:
> hi hinko,
> nice work. actualy i did the same some time ago (not for busybox). the 
> program is still in use but is same drawback.
> You need to login always that is not a problem if you have only a few 
> files/user to handle with but it scales badly. Sometimes you need to 
> check if a file exists, make a checksum etc.. in such cases it is best 
> to do it in one session because some other prg may already process your 
> data.

FTP handling in wget.c is a bit different - ftpcmd() seem like it could 
be way to go - no need to login for every ftp request...

> 
> an alternative approach i was thinking about was making a real 
> scriptable ftp (like a shell) for pure ftpd commands (simplifys command 
> handling)
> perhaps you are interested in testing the idea ?

Sure. Right now I'm little tight with time, so no experimenting for a 
while on my side. I'll just use what I've got for ftp and see how it 
works in a long run.
> 
> ps: for now i use an old netkit-ftp for my ftp stuff

I would probably too, I could make it compile for cris:(
regards,
hinko