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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: even better chat2.pl, and a useful (but simple) ftp client!
Message-ID: <1991May8.213911.15714@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 8 May 91 21:39:11 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.203058.23304@iwarp.intel.com> <132095@uunet.UU.NET>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA)
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As quoted from <132095@uunet.UU.NET> by rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim):
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| merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
| >
| >so an invocation of
| >
| >	ftp-ls-R prep.ai.mit.edu pub/gnu
| >
| >gives you all the GNU stuff.
| 
| I suppose I should have seen where this was going ...
| 
| Why do you think "rget" isn't in the ftp client?
| The answer isn't technical, it's political.
+---------------

I had a feeling someone would say that.  Read the code (and the rest of his
message) --- it sends an ls -lR listing of all the GNU stuff, not the actual
GNU archives.

++Brandon
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