[Gllug] Still no decent FTP client for Linux?

Garry Heaton garry at heaton6.freeserve.co.uk
Wed Oct 6 21:43:22 UTC 2004


>Konqueror?

>Emacs?

>Otherwise, here's a few available in Debian:


>atftp - Advanced TFTP client
>cftp - A full-screen ftp client
>ftp - The FTP client.
>ftp-ssl - The FTP client with SSL encryption support.
>gftp - X/GTK+ FTP client
>gftp-gtk - X/GTK+ FTP client
>gftp-text - colored FTP client using GLib
>hsftp - Ssh client with look and feel of a FTP client
>inetutils-ftp - File Transfer Protocol client
>kbear - Graphical ftp client for KDE
>lftp - Sophisticated command-line FTP/HTTP client programs
>lukemftp - The enhanced ftp client.
>ncftp - A user-friendly and well-featured FTP client
>ncftp2 - A user-friendly and well-featured FTP client
>socks4-clients - Socks4 enabled clients as rtelnet, rftp, ...
>tftp-hpa - HPA's tftp client
>tnftp - The enhanced ftp client.
>waiho.app - Simple FTP client for GNUstep
>weex - A non-interactive FTP client for updating web pages

>Then there's things like d4x and pavuk.

>I just install pavuk, and "pavuk -X" looks pretty well-featured.

>cheers, Rich.

My post was aimed at GUI FTP clients. CLI ftp is a waste of time unless
you're scripting the job. Browser-based FTP clients are no good for syncing
and getting a decent directory tree view which is standard on many Windows
clients.

Garry

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