[syslinux] Command-line TFTP patch?

[Martin Jackson]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Martin Jackson wrote:
> 
>> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I know at least one person, probably two, have sent me TFTP 
>>> command-line patches in the past, however, I cannot for my life find 
>>> either one. Could you resend it, please?  (Also, it would help hugely 
>>> if you would make sure it includes a manpage.  That has been the main 
>>> holdup for me including it so far.)
>>
>>
>>
>> Out of curiosity, would these be patches for usage such as:
>>
>> tftp [-i] [-v] GET|PUT <file> ?
>>
>> If not, would you be open to such a patch for the client?
>>
> 
> Functional equivalent thereof.  The above would be very easy to do (and 
> I might just do them myself), but it might be nice to have a separate 
> lighter-weight client binary.
> 
> If I do the above it's probably going to look something like:
> 
> tftp -c get hostname:file
> 
> ... with the -c distinguishing it from the standard command-line parsing.
> 
>     -hpa


I would also suggest being able to set octet/netascii from command line. 
    Some other options may also be useful for command-line usage, e.g. 
blocksize, timeout and so on.  Might be a bit baroque, but I'm thinking 
of making it convenient to use in shell scripts and the like.

Thanks,

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