Is there an FTP client?

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, jdow wrote:

> I just went out and got ncftp for myself. The ftp client that fedora
> includes is enough to make a person lose her supper. It is REALLY
> definitively dreadful to try to use. I have no idea what the bozoids
> who replaced ncftp with this other garbage were thinking of. (gftp
> will not even run from the command line. You MUST use its GUI version.
> And I happen to prefer the command line. That is why I still have a
> little place in my black book for "David Cary Hart" and his reply to
> a command line issue I have with FC4. His response was snotty and
> unresponsive. For gosh sakes this is Linux not an Apple product where
> I expect that "do it our way or don't do it at all" attitude.)

Ncftp isn't released under the gpl. It's liscense is reasonable enough 
(as far as I'm concerned) but that's a choice that you get to make.

In terms of my own usage... I find that I browse ftp servers using 
mozilla, I retrive files almost exclusivly with wget, and I upload files 
almost exclusivly with scp.

> {^_^}
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kaare Schou" <kaare.schou at vip.cybercity.dk>
>
>
>> Hi
>> Have a look at wget and wput (wput.sourceforge.net). Can do what you want
>> and a lot more.
>> --Kaare
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dan Track [mailto:dan.track at gmail.com]
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Ever since fedora removed "ncftp" (excellent client) I  have been baffled
> as
>> to what client to use instead. The new lftp client is completely weird, it
>> doesn't react naturally (or I'm just not a great learner). At the moment
> two
>> things frustrates me the most. First is that I can't upload files from a
>> directory using wildcards e.g put file*, it spews out an error saying
>> "file*" not found, is there a way to activate this?
>>
>> Second I can't upload a directory, there isn't any option for a "put -r",
> is
>> there any easy way to do this once you have logged into the ftp server.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Dan
>
>
>

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