[Toybox] FTP commands

[Rob Landley]

On 11/05/2013 10:19:32 PM, David Seikel wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 20:06:10 -0800 ibid.ag at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 01:05:50AM +0200, Bertold Van den Bergh  
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Can commands be accepted that are not on the roadmap? I will
> > > certainly need 'ntpdate' which for embedded systems is better than
> > > a full blown ntpd.
> >
> > That would be a question for Rob.
> >
> > That said, I'd be in favor of it. Having *not* examined NTP in
> > detail, I get the impression that it might be possible to have ntpd
> > and ntpdate share much of their code.
> 
> Aboriginal Linux uses rdate, which is also not on the toybox roadmap.
> I would have thought that rdate or ntpdate would have been.

Either would be good. I vaguely recall that rdate uses a simpler but  
semi-deprecated network standard. Figuring out what to do there is  
somewhere way down on my todo list. :)

(If either was in toolbox, it would be on the roadmap...)

Rob