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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 requiring 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 understand username, password, port or parameter
  strings.

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

SEE ALSO
  actsync(8).

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