David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 12:45:48PM +0200, Tor Stormwall wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > When installing over FTP with systinst it connects and downloads the
> > files you selected to install but it seems that it reconnects after each
> > file. Wouldn't it better to keep the FTP connection up and disconnect
> > after all files are fetched?
> 
> sysinst gets the files by running:
> 	/usr/bin/ftp -a ftp://<host>/<dir>/<file>
> not by attempting to feed an interactive session.
> As such it really does need to connect each time.

It might be neat to teach LukeM FTP to handle multiple URLs on the
command line, though, in which case it could use just the one
session...

Perry