ftp vs http vs scp

No. I don't really like it all that much as a language in its own right, and I strongly dislike some aspects of the culture that has grown up around it. I had trouble dealing with no command-line editing, so I patched DCL to add it (and in the process discovered a bug, er, ahem, "undocumented limitation" in patch). When we switched from VMS to Unix, I _really_ missed ECL (what I called my patched DCL), so I added command-line editing to csh. What the result has become by the present day is still my preferred shell; it differs from tcsh in a number of important-to-me ways. (One of my back-burner projects is building a new shell entirely de novo....) /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse(a)rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B