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SIMPLEFTP(1)


NAME

  simpleftp - Rudimentary FTP client


SYNOPSIS

  simpleftp url [...]


DESCRIPTION

  simpleftp is a Perl script 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; e.g., "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.

  The Perl libraries that it uses have the advantage of coming with Perl,
  even older versions of Perl, but are not "-w" safe and do not work nearly
  as well as Net::FTP.


HISTORY

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

  $Id: simpleftp.1,v 1.3 2003/04/03 00:54:02 rra Exp $


SEE ALSO

  actsync(8)

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