Re: Adding FreeBSD's fetch(1) to NetBSD

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 10:20:44PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> 
>       Hello,
> 
> I'm considering to add FreeBSD's fetch(1) to NetBSD. There is admittedly
> a lot of overlap between this command and our ftp(1). But it seems that
> there is more widespread third party support for fetch(1) (see
> e.g. http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/trunk/sa-update.raw ).
> 
> What do people think about this idea?

I think it's not much code, but it's particularly duplicative.  I like
the idea of teaching ftp to understand fetch's command line syntax
better.

Thor