Date:  Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:02:58 -0500
From:  madodelatptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] nftp 1.64 beta

From: tamatgmx.de (Timo Maier) 

NFTP features

NFTP is a text-mode ftp client for (in alphabetical order): BeOS (Intel R4
and up), Digital Unix (Alpha), FreeBSD (Intel), Linux (Intel, SPARC),
OS/2, Solaris (SPARC and Intel), Windows 95/NT. Here `text-mode' means
that it runs in fullscreen mode or text window -- Command-line session on
OS/2, Command Prompt on Windows 95/NT, console or xterm on Unix, Terminal
on BeOS. However, with version 1.50 the quasi-GUI version has appeared for
OS/2. It looks much like textmode version, but utilizes native GUI menu,
some dialog boxes, can be resized freely etc. This does not mean of course
that textmode version will be abandoned. X11 version (using Xlib) appeared
in version 1.51. One of the main design concepts of NFTP is speed and
effectiveness of text-mode keyboard interface. Everything can be done
without mouse! 

To clarify things a little, NFTP is not based on ncftp; neither on user
interface nor on source code. The code is written from scratch (I have
started the project in 1994m, but NFTP was OS/2-only until Feb 1998). Some
ideas might seem to be common but still such ones are floating in the air,
every decent FTP client should support things like directory caching and
restarting transfers. Furthermore, NFTP user interface is quite different
from ncftp's. Name "NFTP" comes from somewhat ugly "New FTP client".
Personally, I think NFTP is the most advanced FTP client in the Unix world
(although you might disagree with my opinion, of course). Under Windows
and OS/2, it stands aside as almost all FTP clients for these systems are
GUI-based (unlike NFTP). While GUI offers prettiness and ease of use for
novices, textmode interface gives speed without sacrificing power
(including speed of use when you learn key combinations). Besides,
textmode interface makes possible the same interface on a variety of
systems, including Unix. 

Program URL: http://www.ayukov.com/nftp/

ftp://ftp.ayukov.com/pub/nftp/beta/nftp-1.64.b1-i386-os2.zip

                           

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