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From: Jeffrey Jones on 19 Mar 2010 22:30 In article <jwolf6589-A15DF0.18432919032010(a)nntp.charter.net>, John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: > Interarchy is cute but way too expensive. Interarchy is on sale right now, if that helps. <http://nolobe.com/firesale/>
From: Wes Groleau on 19 Mar 2010 23:11 sitecopy, curl, wget, and rsync are all free. Or I go to Windows, point Internet Explorer to ftp://host/directory then just drag and drop. Also free (not quite, since having to use Windows is a cost....) That's one thing that puzzles me--how M$ can keep trying to copy Apple and failing, yet on this one feature, it's been the other way 'round for over a decade. Just luck, I guess. -- Wes Groleau Posted Last Episodes of “Muzzy II” http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/russell?itemid=1424
From: gl4317 on 20 Mar 2010 00:52 In article <ho1edm$mpg$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Groleau+nntp(a)FreeShell.org wrote: > sitecopy, curl, wget, and rsync are all free. > > Or I go to Windows, point Internet Explorer to > ftp://host/directory then just drag and drop. > > Also free (not quite, since having to use Windows > is a cost....) > > That's one thing that puzzles me--how M$ can keep > trying to copy Apple and failing, yet on this > one feature, it's been the other way 'round for > over a decade. > > Just luck, I guess. For windows, there is a program called "Beyond Compare" that I like far better than their built in FTP stuff. It is designed to compare files, and you can even do a binary level comparison between files that are in folders / directories. While it is intended for folder to folder comparison, it also is a willing FTP client. It does seem to crash from time to time, but the quality of the information it provides is worth it, for the stuff I do with FTP on Windows. For the Mac, I still use the Freeware version of Fetch that was distributed back in the mid-1990s. It does everything I need it to do for what I do on the Mac. -- -Glennl Please note this e-mail address is a pit of spam, and most e-mail sent to this address are simply lost in the vast mess.
From: JF Mezei on 20 Mar 2010 03:05 Michelle Steiner wrote: >> In finder: Menu-> GO -> Connect to server > > Because it's read only. You can't upload to it. > OOPS ! I never really spent the time to try it. Mea Culpa. I have tended to use comand line ftp from either the mac or from a remote host to the mac. last time I used Fetch was when I was still at 8.6 (original MacOs). BTW, with the command line ftp, you can still have "macbinary" files sent to the mac and decoded by the receiving OS-X ftp server and built properly in the mac file system. You need to add the proper file extension to the file you are sending and it automatically gets treated as macbinary. (I think you need to have .macbin or .bin extension added to the filename).
From: Jamie Kahn Genet on 20 Mar 2010 06:20
John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: > I bet on CyberDuck and Fetch as I use them both to update CERM. > Cyberduck has some annoying features, but its much faster than Fetch and > does things Fetch cannot. > > Interarchy is cute but way too expensive. Yummy FTP is also another > winner, but also too expensive. Transmit is okay, but it lacks many > features. > > What are your picks? Fetch still does all I want, with a simple straightforward UI :-) I've tried other clients, and even liked them a lot (Anarchie - Interarchy's predecessor - was a long time favourite, and I've dabbled with CyberDuck), but Fetch is a reliable workhorse - and that's exactly what I want from my FTP client. -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. |