Re: LYNX-DEV file downloading

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, David Woolley wrote: 
> But the Unix philosophy is actually to use an *external* program when 
> possible 
> so you don't have to reinvent the wheel. 
>  
> So using ncftp (or normal ftp, or whatever the user sets up as their FTP 
> client 
> as long as it has some established way of accepting a file path via command 
> line or environment variable) is actually following the Unix philosophy  
> more than Lynx having its own ftp implementation. 
maybe - but a lot of Lynx was developed on VMS, where subprocesses are
relatively costly & awkward to integrate.

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