From: Rainer Joswig
Subject: Re: ftp in lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <joswig-1811981816550001@pbg3.lavielle.com>
In article <··············@eho.eaglets.com>, ···@goems.com wrote:

> I need a simple ftp interface in CL (`ls' and `get' whould be enough).
> [for now I will just run /bin/ftp...]
> Is there such a thing?

Symbolics Genera has this built in. ;-)

CL-HTTP has a bit code in the CMUCL directory.

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From: Harvey J. Stein
Subject: Re: ftp in lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <m290h8yha9.fsf@blinky.bfr.co.il>
······@lavielle.com (Rainer Joswig) writes:

 > In article <··············@eho.eaglets.com>, ···@goems.com wrote:
 > 
 > > I need a simple ftp interface in CL (`ls' and `get' whould be enough).
 > > [for now I will just run /bin/ftp...]
 > > Is there such a thing?
 > 
 > Symbolics Genera has this built in. ;-)
 > 
 > CL-HTTP has a bit code in the CMUCL directory.

Lots of Scheme implementations have such things.  STk & scsh come to
mind.  It should be easy enough to work out the details from the
implementations & port to Common Lisp.

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Harvey J. Stein
BFM Financial Research
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