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From: AES on 20 Mar 2010 17:24 In article <ho3c9u$sp5$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > > But I just had to jerk your chain. > Won't happen again.
From: dorayme on 20 Mar 2010 17:54 In article <4ba532a9$0$10924$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > And why, pray tell, would Apple intentionally make the finder's FTP > capability read-only (aka: useless) ? It is not *useless*. I for one, have often a need to be reminded what is on my servers, a quick look. -- dorayme
From: nospam on 20 Mar 2010 18:29 In article <ho38op$f82$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > At one time, Apple did have a read/write FTP GUI. Sort of. > It was called Network Browser and it actually did go both ways. > But it crashed an awful lot, and it was not "seamlessly" integrated > with Finder. that was for os 9. you'd think in nearly ten years they could figure out why it crashed, along with rewriting it for os x.
From: nospam on 20 Mar 2010 18:32 In article <4ba532a9$0$10924$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > > The decision to make the ftp in the finder read-only was intentional. > > There is nothing to 'fix' as it is not broken. > > And why, pray tell, would Apple intentionally make the finder's FTP > capability read-only (aka: useless) ? they do a lot of things for which there are no good answers. > FTP does have an issue with text vs binary transfers, so I guess it is > harder to implement a seamless FTP functionality that knows when to do > text vs binary transfers. But then again, a read-only client still needs > to deal with this. they can tell if it's text or not by the extension, the same way they determine file types now, even though it's unreliable.
From: nospam on 20 Mar 2010 18:36
In article <michelle-28B031.13523720032010(a)nothing.attdns.com>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > And why, pray tell, would Apple intentionally make the finder's FTP > > capability read-only (aka: useless) ? > > Being able to download files is useless? being able to *only* download files is useless. what if mounting appleshare servers was intentionally read-only? would that be ok? what if your email app could only receive email, but not send? after all, there's too much spam these days and apple has no guarantee that you won't use it to spam, so they intentionally left that ability out. you can't be too careful these days. |