curl to be added

[p.lavarre]

In short:

I wish Knoppix included `curl`.

At length ...

Hi, I consciously chose not to search the archives here: either this idea is new else it is another vote for an old idea.

I'm writing because I'm lost in the gui failing to retrieve:
ftp://members.aol.com/plforth/console/fni/fniscsi2.zip

For example:
Information - Konqueror
The file or directory /plforth/console/fni/fniscsi2.zip does not exist.

Therefore I wish Knoppix included `curl`:

"curl is a client to get documents/files from or send documents to a server, using any of the supported protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, GOPHER, DICT, TELNET, LDAP or FILE). The command is designed to work without user interaction or any kind of interactivity.

"curl offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy support, user authentication, ftp upload, HTTP post, SSL (https:) connections, cookies, file transfer resume and more.

Meanwhile I'm glad to find Knoppix includes an `ftp` smart enough to punch thru the firewall here ... `ftp members.aol.com` understood `user anonymous p.lavarre@ieee.org` and soon thereafter fetched my zip for me.

Pat LaVarre
http://members.aol.com/plscsi/tools/knoppix/

P.S. This is my first post here. Nowhere else on Earth have I found registration so quick & easy, thank you. And the Preview button instantly shows me how bracket-url-bracket etc. work.

[garyng]

have you tried wget ?

[p.lavarre]

Excellent, thank you, I stand corrected: Knoppix gives me wget, and that is all I need, I do not need curl.

Interestingly enough, back where I was using curl, man curl points to wget and to snarf, though the man wget there does not point to curl.

Pat LaVarre