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From: Jolly Roger on 21 Mar 2010 15:28 In article <C7CC2504.9D9D6%noreply(a)nospam.invalid>, MartinC <noreply(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > Phillip Jones wrote: > > > The best FTP Client for the money is Interarchy (formerly Anarchie). I > > use it to upload files and do mirror downloads to and and from my Website. > > When Fetch went commercial, I switched to Cyberduck. It does everything that > the original (OS9) Fetch did, plus a *lot* more. Maybe the commercial > alternatives will have even more features, but when I first found Cyberduck > I never looked back. > > http://www.cyberduck.ch My wife complains a lot about Cyberduck crashing and doing other things that cause her headaches. I'll stick with the problem-free Fetch. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Jolly Roger on 21 Mar 2010 15:28 In article <sdfisher-866352.11165721032010(a)mara100-84.onlink.net>, Steven Fisher <sdfisher(a)spamcop.net> wrote: > In article <ho5hfi$k2n$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > > > Or because about ten years ago was when OS X > > appeared--with Network Browser gone and one-way FTP > > taking its place? > > Mac OS X didn't support FTP until 10.2. > > Steve LOL - good one! Completely wrong, but funny. : ) -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: JF Mezei on 21 Mar 2010 15:32 Warren Oates wrote: > man mount_ftp > > will tell you that it's mounting a read-only filesystem. This may have > more to do with filesystems and mount(8) than security. Actually, the exact text is more interesting because of the use of a certaun 4 letter word that begins with B and ends with ugs . (At the very end of the MAN page) ## BUGS mount_ftp only supports mounting read-only. Mac OS X June 6, 2003 ## So, this doesn't appear to have been a "design decision", but rather a BUG (aka: the write portion was probably very buggy, so they disabled it)
From: JF Mezei on 21 Mar 2010 15:38 nospam wrote: > firefox is a browser. people don't expect it to be bidirectional. Interestingly, its grandfather, Netscape Communicator, was perfectly able to upload files via FTP. Once you had an FTP connectio/URL setup, the FILE menu got one or tow more options to send files to the remote site.
From: nospam on 21 Mar 2010 15:46
In article <4ba67468$0$10427$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > So, this doesn't appear to have been a "design decision", but rather a > BUG (aka: the write portion was probably very buggy, so they disabled it) even worse. and steve has the gall to call adobe lazy. |