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Message from Steven
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Sindi wrote:
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> Would one start wget with -c the first time 
> or just subsequent times? 

Subsequent times.

> This is the only advantage I know of for busybox wget.

There are several other advantages.

> And in my experience busybox wget aborts transfers more 
> often than kermit ftp does.

Kermit is too big for BL3.

> There does not seem to be a non-busybox ftpput with 
> correct instructions, which makes it rather stupid 
> to refuse to fix the broken instructions.

The only reason I put ftpput in BL3 was because of you.
Since you don't like it, I will leave it out next time.

> Anyone doing long transfers is likely to have installed 
> BL to hard disk 

Really?  I often use wget from a minimal BL3.

> and should get the full wget.

Why?  The BL3 wget works fine for most purposes.  

> For a minimal BL, is wget really needed?  

sigh...  yes, wget is a really useful utility.

> If both ftpput and wget were omitted

I am happy to omit ftpput.  I will not omit wget.

> would it make space for Samir's asm ftp?  26K upx'ed.

As I've said before, I will not be using upx for BL3.

> What does mdir do?

Start ftp, then execute: ? mdir  
That will display help for the mdir command