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James Miller wrote:
>
> I looked into the ftp client a bit and it looks alot 
> more difficult than I had hoped. ncftp is included 
> in Slack 4.0, 

Doesn't it have the ordinary ftp client?  

> but it's missing a dependency and won't run on BL3.  

Which dependency?

> tftp really looks like the right candidate (very minimal), 

Too minimal.  We had tftp in BL2 and nobody ever got it to
do anything useful.  It needs a special server, I think.

> If it's the right client for BL3, it looks like we
> may have to specially compile it.

I suggest you try the ftp in BL1.  It has no dependencies.  
Just boot the BL1 ramdisk and copy /bin/ftp to floppy (or
to your DOS partition).

Cheers,
Steven