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In article <1992Nov1.131531.10426@cujo.curtin.edu.au>, peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Peter N Lewis) writes:
|> Archive-name: ftp-anon-login-patch
|> Submitted-by: peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au
|> 
|> This is a very simple patch to the ucb ftp code (I got it from
|> munnari.oz.au so it may be slightly different, but patch should figure
|> it out :-).  It adds a -a flag which automatically logs in as anonymous
|> and your login@machine name as password (the flag is also turned on, if
|> the program is invoked as 'aftp').  This was just a quick hack, it
|> worked fine for me on a SPARC2 running SunOS 4.1.2, it'll probably work
|> on most unix machines, but I haven't tested it on any others.  If it
|> works for you, good, otherwise, you're out of luck :)

Most of the time I login elsewhere as anonymous so I use a '.netrc' file with
this: 

default
login anonymous
password asjl@comp.vuw.ac.nz

If I want to connect as some other user, I just connect as:

$ ftp -n hostname

and then say:

ftp> user foobar

Seems much easier than mondifying the code on lots of machines.