Todd Whitesel writes:
> While I'm on a roll, how about ftp outputting to stdout, so sysinst can
> pipe an installation set directly into gunzip | tar for extracting onto
> small disks without needing /usr/INSTALL.

is
    ftp -o "| gtar -xvpf -" ftp://home/some.tar.gz
not good enough? i'm sure that's been there since 1.4... ;-)