gftp-text

[Phil Schaffner]

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 12:03 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:57 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
> > In another thread, someone mentioned that gftp won't work from the
> > console. They are correct. Gftp comes with a text port in the source.
> > Apparently, that has been disabled. I suppose that I could re-package
> > the RPM with the text port but does anyone know why this was eliminated?
> 
> Not an official answer - but my guess is because better cli ftp clients
> _are_ shipped with Fedora, and the focus of the gftp developers isn't
> the cli client.

I like lftp for command-line or script use.

Phil