Subject: Re: reget is _way_ nice.
To: James Graham - Systems Anarchist <greywolf@starwolf.starwolf.com>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
List: current-users
Date: 07/27/1998 00:45:04
James Graham - Systems Anarchist writes:
> I don't know precisely by what manner reget finally made it into ftp, and I
> know it's been in there for a while, now, but I wanted to express my sincere
> gratitude that it exists there!

I believe it's been in ftp(1) and ftpd(8) since 4.4BSD. I don't believe
it's one of the features that makes (IMNSHO (*)) NetBSD's ftp so usable.


> It's _really_ nice for those times when you're retrieving a large file and
> the filesystem fills up :-(.

heh ;-).

(*) because I added most of them ;-)