On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Ming Zhang wrote:

> saw from help that --compressed is http only. but as i know some ftp server
> support compress as well. any plan to support that as well.

Simple: nobody cared enough about it to introduce such a feature. Feel free to
submit a patch!

I personally have no plans to add support for this.

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