On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> Lynx has an -source option so it doesn't format the output.
>
> NetBSD's ftp client has HTTP support too.

But in this case, HTTP is not needed, unless the INDEX was on a webserver.
(I was just thinking about it, since I was thinking about wget and lynx.)

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

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