simpleftp(1) [redhat man page]

SIMPLEFTP(1)						      General Commands Manual						      SIMPLEFTP(1)

NAME

       simpleftp - rudimentary ftp client

SYNOPSIS

       simpleftp ftp://...  [ ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       simpleftp  is  a perl script that provides basic support for fetching files with FTP in a batch oriented fashion.  It takes one or more ftp
       URLS on the command line.  The file(s) will be retrieved from the remote server and placed in the current directory with the same  basename
       as on the remote; i.e., ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz is stored as active.gz in the current directory.

BUGS

       simpleftp  is  an  extremely  poor substitute for more complete programs like the freely available wget or ncftp utilities.  It was written
       only to provide elementary support in INN for non-interactive fetching of the files in ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/ without requir-
       ing administrators to install yet another package.  Its shortcomings as a general purpose program are too numerous to mention, but one that
       stands out is that simpleftp does not understand the complete syntax of URLs, only the hostname and pathname parts -- it  will  not  under-
       stand username, password, port or parameter strings.

HISTORY

       Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org> for InterNetNews.

SEE ALSO

       actsync(8).

																      SIMPLEFTP(1)

ftp::geturl(3tcl)						    ftp client							 ftp::geturl(3tcl)

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NAME

       ftp::geturl - Uri handler for ftp urls

SYNOPSIS

       package require Tcl  8.2

       package require ftp::geturl  ?0.2.1?

       ::ftp::geturl url

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DESCRIPTION

       This  package  provides	a command which wraps around the client side of the ftp protocol provided by package ftp to allow the retrieval of
       urls using the ftp schema.

API

       ::ftp::geturl url
	      This command can be used by the generic command ::uri::geturl (See package uri) to retrieve the contents of ftp urls. Internally	it
	      uses the commands of the package ftp to fulfill the request.

	      The contents of a ftp url are defined as follows:

	      file   The contents of the specified file itself.

	      directory
		     A	listing of the contents of the directory in key value notation where the file name is the key and its attributes the asso-
		     ciated value.

	      link   The attributes of the link, including the path it refers to.

BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
       This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems.  Please report such in the category  ftp	of
       the  Tcllib  SF	Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883].  Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for
       either package and/or documentation.

SEE ALSO

       ftpd, mime, pop3, smtp

KEYWORDS

       ftp, internet, net, rfc 959

CATEGORY

       Networking

ftp								       0.2.1							 ftp::geturl(3tcl)