Subject: Re: A small utility to easily browse the available packages?
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/13/2003 01:10:14
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> tailor your presentation. It also uses wget instead of lynx which has
> the stupid habitud of formatting the output (and -width does not work
> when there are very long lines).

Lynx has an -source option so it doesn't format the output.

NetBSD's ftp client has HTTP support too.

ftp -V -o - ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/INDEX 2>/dev/null

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/