From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <599f06db0811141555t34a1c517ic44a5785e0c6b507@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:55:26 +0100 From: "Gorka Guardiola" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <832.1226704881@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <832.1226704881@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Help downloading Plan B using hget Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4376ce5e-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Dave Eckhardt wrote: >> hget is similar to almost all plan 9 programs >> and (not surprisingly) different from many >> modern unix programs in that, by default, >> it writes to standard output. > > This may seem idiosyncratic, but it has a big benefit. > > On various machines I have wget, curl, fetch, etc., and Not completely true. Curl works as expected, I use it regularly. curl http://lsub.org > b.html % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 6623 100 6623 0 0 20232 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 41393 mymachine:/tmp paurea$ cat b.html etc... -- - curiosity sKilled the cat