[Toybox] FTP commands

[Rob Landley]

On 12/12/13 20:11, David Seikel wrote:
> First of all, could every one stop CCing me, I'm actually on the list
> and I'm getting this entire conversation twice.  It seems every one
> just copies the CC list from the one they are replying to, then adds
> one.  The CC list has been steadily growing here.  lol
>> and initialize port to 0, if we want to keep support for -P ftp.
>> (I don't imagine anyone using -P ssh or any non-numeric port other
>> than "ftp".)
>
> Yes keep support for -P.  I use it, and I think Aboriginal Linux uses
> it.  At least from the busybox version, and I think we both want to
> move to the toybox version.  I think we both use numeric ports for what
> it's worth.

Aboriginal does use numeric ports. The question is making -P support 
named ports.

At one point I had code to convert the dozen most common port names to 
numbers and back without requiring an external file. I didn't check it 
in because I dunno who (if anyone) actually uses this anymore?

Rob

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