[Gllug] Still no decent FTP client for Linux?

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Thu Oct 7 12:43:18 UTC 2004


On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 12:11:34AM +0100, Garry wrote:
> Dylan wrote:
> 
>  > What are your required features?
> > 
> > Dylan
> > 
> 
> A tree view of the local and remote filesystems so that you don't have to
> cue-up each directory before transfers would be nice. Sure, you can try to
> sync files within subdirectories by hitting a top-level directory in gFTP
> but all it gives you is a flat listing of everything within, often with
> files missing, filenames mis-spelt and just a lot of general flakiness. If I
> hit Bookmarks after editing Bookmarks, poof! It's gone. Anther gripe I have
> with gFTP is that the same listing produces a different, random mixing of
> files and directories on each side of the connection. The parent directory
> icon doesn't even appear at the top.

IIRC, dpsftp may be what you're after.
http://dpsftp.sourceforge.net/


-- 
Bruce

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