XFree86 available via yum
Xose Vazquez Perez
xose at wanadoo.es
Wed Oct 15 01:01:29 UTC 2003
Mike A. Harris wrote:
> The ftp:// URL uses the FTP protocol, and the http:// URL uses
> the HTTP protocol. Additionally, the user roots of both of these
This is the trivial part :-))
> are in separate locations, so a file appearing at an ftp:// URL
> will not be at an http:// URL because they are different
> protocols with different storage locations on the hard disk
> arrays. Some developers may or may not hardlink the files to
> make them available in both locations. Personally, I favour ftp,
the question is: why are they different? if they are public servers :-?
why is closed http index and ftp is opened?.... X files, sources are
out there :-)
> as it works with commandline ncftp, etc. and I dislike using text
> web browsers in place of commandline ftp clients... ;o)
there is command line web clients like elinks, w3m...
I know that FTP was designed for file transfer but HTTP usually
is faster, for me.
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