The thing that got me going was when I upgraded a system ncftp pointed to ncftp3 which was all fine. And then I installed a new system and there is no ncftp, just ncftp3. so here I was thinking hey I've installed ncftp where is it only to find there was nothing in /etc/alternatives. On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:30:49AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:53:58PM +0100, Muhammad Hussain Yusuf wrote: > > 1) I was wondering whether there are many users of > > both ncftp2 (the old version) and ncftp3, who install both versions. > > > > A suggested solution (by Szasz Andras ) to allow both is: > > > > ncftp: /usr/bin/ncftp3 > > ncftp2: /usr/bin/ncftp2 > > And both of them should make use of the /etc/alternatives system (see: > > update-alternatives), and ncftp3 with a higher priority. > > On my potato system it looks like it is already done this way. > ncftp provides /usr/bin/ncftp3, ncftp2 provides /usr/bin/ncftp2, > and /etc/alternatives/ncftp points to ncftp3. > > > And how many still use the old version, which is no longer maintained > > upstream? Is it worth retaining? > > I still think the interface is better than v3 in many ways. > > > Polite question: would anyone really miss the readline option since > > getline works OK and *seems to be* what most users use? > > What's the difference? > > > Hamish > -- > Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Jason Thomas Phone: +61 2 6257 7111 System Administrator - UID 0 Fax: +61 2 6257 7311 tSA Consulting Group Pty. Ltd. Mobile: 0418 29 66 81 1 Hall Street Lyneham ACT 2602 http://www.topic.com.au/
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