Re: ftpfs

[Oystein Viggen <oysteivi@tihlde.org>]

Quoth "Aneesh Kumar K.V": 

>  Can anybody help me to setup a ftp translator. Just I need to find the
> usage. I am not able to locate any manual
> 
> ftpfs --help.     Doesn't look useful

For maximum coolness, I suggest you combine the ftp translator with the
hostmuxer:

settrans -c /ftp /hurd/hostmux /hurd/ftpfs /

Then you can do this:
dors:~# cd /ftp/ftp.us.debian.org/debian
dors:/ftp/ftp.us.debian.org/debian# ls
README                 README.mirrors.txt  ls-lR
README.CD-manufacture  README.non-US       ls-lR.gz
README.mirrors.html    README.pgp          ls-lR.patch.gz

If you want to use ftpfs for some specific site, use it like this:
dors:/# settrans -c /usdebian /hurd/ftpfs ftp.us.debian.org:/
dors:/# cd /usdebian/debian
dors:/usdebian/debian# ls
README                 README.mirrors.txt  ls-lR
README.CD-manufacture  README.non-US       ls-lR.gz
README.mirrors.html    README.pgp          ls-lR.patch.gz

Note that there have been some problems using ftpfs with wu-ftp
servers.

Oystein
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