On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Andrew Gillham 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!  :)

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

Passive FTP: command line option ``-p''
Proxy: set http_proxy or ftp_proxy (lower case!) environment variables to
       the HTTP URL of the proxy server

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