From: Dag Wieers [mailto:dag@xxxxxxxxxx]
>
> On Mon, 16 May 2005, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote:
>
> > > Well, I could, but why would you use ncftp when lftp is actually more
> > > feature complete and much better overall. (ncftp is not open source
> > > actually).
> > >
> > > If there's a good reason you might convince me to do the extra work.
> >
> > Well, this came up because perl CPAN wants to use ncftpget to download
> > files, and it couldn't find it on my system... does lftp contain a
> > functional equivalent?
>
> It includes lftpget. It seems strange to me that CPAN is using ncftp and
> does not look for any alternatives. You may have to look into that first.
I seem to remember that CPAN prompts for your ftp client when you do the
initialization. You may want to go through that process again and specify
lftpget when it asks.
$ perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> o conf init
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