[bug-inetutils] Re: ftp -p(assive) compatibility

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

> All the other ftp programs I've seen support -p to mean switch into
> passive mode by default.  This is very useful, since so many places
> (such as fencepost :() are configured to only work with passive mode.
>
> Printing a command line prompt when not on a tty seems very obscure by
> comparison.  How about leaving that as --prompt only, and changing -p
> (aka --passive, I suppose) to do the passive mode thing?

+1.  It seems inetutils-ftp already has support for passive mode, so it
is likely just a matter of changing the command line parameter
semantics.

/Simon