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lftp 1.2.4 installed in outland
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Jan 20 16:37:37 1999
To: bug-outland@MIT.EDU, software-announce@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 20 Jan 1999 16:37:16 -0500
I've installed lftp 1.2.4 in the outland locker for Linux, NetBSD,
IRIX, and Solaris.
From the README:
lftp is quite a powerful ftp client. It uses GNU readline to read
commands. It uses shell-like command syntax allowing you to launch
several commands in parallel in background (&).
Some commands allow redirecting its output (cat, ls) to file or via
pipe to external command. Commands can be started conditionally based
on termination status of previous command (&&, ||). Also, it is
possible to group commands within () and execute them in background.
All background jobs are executed in the same single process. You can
bring a foreground job to background with ^Z and back with command
`wait' (or `fg' which is alias to `wait').
When you think you are done but some jobs are not yet finished, you
can just exit and lftp will move itself to nohup mode in background.
The same happens when you have a real hangup.
lftp has reliable put, reput, mirror, and many other commands. Use
command `help' or read documentation to learn more.
Every operation in lftp is reliable, that is any not fatal error is
ignored and the operation is repeated. So if downloading breaks, it
will be restarted from the point automatically. Even if ftp server
does not support REST command, lftp will try to retrieve the file from
the very beginning until the file is transferred completely.
On startup, lftp executes /etc/lftp.conf and then ~/.lftprc and
~/.lftp/rc. You can place aliases and `set' commands there. Some
people prefer to see full protocol debug, use `debug' to turn the
debug on.
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I've also installed a noninteractive companion program called ftpget.
Please send bug reports about either program to bug-outland.
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
