Ftp

Stephen Ward s.ward at auckland.ac.nz
Mon Feb 28 00:28:04 UTC 2005


I reccommend fire-ftp to my clients. It is a firefox extension and is 
therefore cross platform and easy to use and install. Personally I just 
use ncftp mostly.

Bob Nielsen wrote:

>On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 12:24:59PM -0500, landotter wrote:
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>>gftp is my favourite by far--it allows bookmarking and remembers
>>password. Other than that, it's simple and straightforward.
>>
>>Krusader is also a nice ftp client if you need a gui. It's dependent on
>>a few KDE/QT libraries if space is an issue.
>>
>>either can simply be installed with Synaptic/apt.
>>
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>For a text ftp client, ncftp is nice and it also has bookmarks and 
>remembers passwords.  It is similar to gftp-text, but doesn't use 
>colors, which IMO makes the screen easier to read (dark blue on black is 
>difficult for me).
>
>It looks like gftp-common and gftp-gtk (in main) have a security upgrade
>which doesn't exist for gftp-text, which is only in universe (and there
>are versioned dependencies which make that version of gftp-common
>incompatable with the available version of gftp-text).
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