RE: [flalug] ftp question

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sun Mar 07 2004 - 11:49:35 EST


On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Larry Brown wrote:

> If you get a change check out ncftp. The shell is much more like the bash
> shell such as using tab to fill in filenames. It also shows you the
> download time and speed of the download. It is run on the shell just like
> ftp. It also uses anonymous log and pass by default, so if you don't
> specify your login, it will automatically try anonymous.

You can make regular /bin/ftp do that for you too. Add this to ~/.netrc:

default
login anonymous
password youremailaddress

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