Thread: equivalent to freebsd fetch
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Old 7th August 2009
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It made sense for them to turn ftp(1) into a general purpose "fetcher" for the install media and for the package/port system.

If you look in the OpenBSD -CURRENT source for ftp, you'll notice that if it's compiled for SMALL.. it is only a fetcher, and cannot be used to upload files to an FTP server.

You'll also notice that NetBSD and FreeBSD support HTTP in ftp, it's not only an OpenBSD thing.
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