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  • Subject: Re: [BL] busybox 1.01 ftpput help file is wrong
  • Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:26:49 +0000 (UTC)

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

Message from Steven
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Sindi wrote:

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.

I would appreciate knowing what wget can do better than links besides reume download, so I can use its features. The help screen is cryptic.

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

Kermit is too big for BL3.

I know, that is why Samir's ftp is nice.

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.

I was not asking to leave it out, just to somehow provide correct
instructions. Maybe as a man page? I am now using it all the time, with remote-dir instead of remote-file. I have a script, and I can type put filename. Actually one script per remote directory. No need to enter password each time. I can't use links or wget to replace ftpput.
I am also using ftpget (which I compiled) instead of links and wget.
You don't need all three of those.

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

Really? I often use wget from a minimal BL3.

And do long transfers to hard disk?

and should get the full wget.

Why? The BL3 wget works fine for most purposes.

Can you download multiple files with one command?
Can it list files in a directory like links or ftp?
I would like to understand how it works.

For a minimal BL, is wget really needed?

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

Other than resumed download, what should I be using it for that links does not do?


If both ftpput and wget were omitted

I am happy to omit ftpput. I will not omit wget.
I use ftpput much more than 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.

I don't recall why not. There is space on disk 2 so I can add it, along with vfat.o .

What does mdir do?

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


list contents of multiple remote directories

I type mdir and get
(remote files)

I then type ls and get
(local file)
mdir
output to local file: mdir? y
it transferred something.
I now have a file mdir:
ftpd: ls: no such file or directory

As I said, the instructions are cryptic. I should find a man page for some other ftp program.
Sindi




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