honestly, netscape wouldn't be my first choice
most distributions come with a copy of wget, which can retrieve ftp urls as
well
you just run
wget ftp://path.to/dir/file
Chris
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From: "BJD" ">bdowd@dentfirst.com>
To: ">ale@ale.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 4:27 PM
Subject: [ale] User,Pass on an FTP commandline
> I need to retrieve a file (via cron) which resides on an FTP server
> requiring a username and password.
> In Netscape entering a URL of
> ">pass@ftp.ftpsite.com/dir/subdir/test.txt">ftp://user:">pass@ftp.ftpsite.com/dir/subdir/test.txt
> works nicely *but* how can I accomplish the same thing from the command
> line? And yes, I've read the 'man' but am still clueless...
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> Brian J. Dowd
> 73, W1DOC
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