Is there an FTP client?

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com
Wed Jul 20 17:59:07 UTC 2005


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.)

Does ncftp do something lftp will not?? I have not used ncftp since Red Hat put
lftp in and rm'd ncftp but I have not missed it either. For me lftp seems to
work just fine. I do agree how ever about gftp being a waste of space though.

Just wondering.

Regards,

Tom




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