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Re: bugs in latest ncftp package?



On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 12:30:33AM -0500, Ted Cabeen wrote:
> >I think this is because you had NcFTP 3.0 (which was in non-free),
> >and have now upgraded to NcFTP 2.4.3 (now GPL).
> 
> Yup, that's it.  And its a good thing too, because 3.0 sucks.  (No completion,
> no paging of long directory entries.  What is it good for?

It has all those things, but it's not legal to include libreadline in it,
which is where all those features like completion came from.  =>

3.0 did have them at one point before the maintainer realized the license
issues.

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