It looks like a fallback to ftp when updating curl *almost* works: ftp --fail --insecure --location --remote-time -o curl-7.52.1.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.fr.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/distfiles/curl-7.52.1.tar.bz2 -O ftp: unknown option -- - But it is sticking curl options onto ftp. Thanks, Matt