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6 simpleftp - Rudimentary FTP client
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9 simpleftp url [...]
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12 simpleftp is a Perl script that provides basic support for fetching
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26 simpleftp is an extremely poor substitute for more complete programs
27 like the freely available wget or ncftp utilities. It was written only
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32 general purpose program are too numerous to mention, but one that
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