Subject: Re: fetch command for distribution files for package system
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
List: current-users
Date: 12/30/1997 15:53:08
> 
> On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> 
> : This won't work for the packages that are only distributed via HTTP
> : unless the NetBSD project caches them somewhere that has ftp access.
> 
> Actually, it will.  NetBSD's command-line can fetch HTTP too.  (Woo!  :)
> 
> =====
> ===== Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Business tv@lucent.com) =====

So how does one specify passive FTP or a proxy server for it?

-Andrew
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