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[Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>]

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:03:47PM -0400, keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2003 bontemps AT m-net.arbornet.org wrote:
> 
> > I am using a telnet service to get e-mail. I have been able to use "ftp"
> > to download my saved-messages folder. BL has no ftp program. Is there any
> > way I can download this saved-messages folder with BL?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > PS I very much enjoy this site(basicliux). I don't know what you do Steven
> > but it seems you put a LOT of effort into this and it has helped me learn
> > a lot. Thanks again.
> 
> I strongly agree with paragraph two ;)
> 
> I also telnet to get my mail from a Unix-type server.  I suppose I could
> copy anything I wanted to save on my home computer to my internet
> directory, wget, and then delete it, but that seems a bit time-consuming. 
> 
> I also ran into the problem of no ftp in BL2.  The ftp for Slackware 7.1
> is part of a large package of things I could see no use for (I think it
> included 'talk' - rather pointless on a single-user system). Perhaps
> Steven could post just the actual file(s) needed for ftp?
> 
> Since I also wanted a dialer, I installed Kermit for Slackware 7.1 (2M

But BL2 has a dialer. So why do you want to use kermit, unless kermit is
also some other thing?