FTP lacking file name completion on 9.04

[Tero Pesonen]

On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 16:09 +0000, sktsee wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:50:46 +0200, Tero Pesonen wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I just noticed that the FTP command on my 9.04 will not complete
> > filenames (i.e. by pressing TAB, similar to bash.) On my old SUSE box,
> > FTP does this, making downloading files with long names, hidden behind
> > long paths composed of long and complex directory names, much easier and
> > faster. The man page offers no help. It does talk about filename
> > globbing (disabled by -g), but I don't know what that means -- my
> > dictionary knows no such verb as "to glob."
> > 
> > Can I turn filename completion on somehow, or do I need to recompile FTP
> > with this feature enabled?
> > 
> > Thanks for any ideas!
> > 
> 
> IIRC, there are at least two command-line ftp clients installed, netkit-
> ftp and lftp. lftp is the one that has the filename/command completion 
> like behavior. 

lftp seems to work as expected, though it is not the same FTP client
SUSE launches with "ftp." But anyhow, it works. Thanks!

Tero Pesonen

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