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Section: Unix

Added: Mon, Oct 9th 2000 06:20 UTC (7 years, 11 months ago)

Updated: Wed, Aug 15th 2001 14:25 UTC (7 years, 0 months ago)

About:
fget is a minimal HTTP/FTP download util with IPv4 and IPv6 support. It has been designed with little extra features to make it ideal for boot and rescue disks.

Author:
Felix von Leitner [contact developer]

Homepage:
http://www.fefe.de/fget/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.fefe.de/fget/fget-0.4.1.tar.bz2

Trove categories: [change]
[Development Status] 5 - Production/Stable
[Environment] Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience] System Administrators
[License] Public Domain
[Operating System] POSIX
[Programming Language] C
[Topic] Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Internet :: WWW/HTTP

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

Project admins: [change]
» Felix von Leitner (Owner)

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Comments

[»] TFTP?
by Andrew Hill - Aug 16th 2001 04:33:51

Surely this is exactly the reason the TFTP protocol exists?

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[»] Re: TFTP?
by Felix von Leitner - Aug 16th 2001 12:19:55

> Surely this is exactly the reason the
> TFTP protocol exists? no. A boot or rescue floppy needs to be able to
retrieve tarballs from distant servers on the Internet, TFTP is for LAN use only, and frankly, it sucks. Try installing Debian via TFTP.

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