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FTP soft suggestions

Posted: 2003-04-30 12:58pm
by The Yosemite Bear
That's right, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for good legal shareware FTP software, so that I can muck around with my ISP given website.... (and host some images and such...

Posted: 2003-04-30 01:01pm
by Kelly Antilles
I use WSFTP Lite (it's a freeware, I think). Works for me, plus it's rather simple.

Posted: 2003-04-30 01:01pm
by Crayz9000
You can try getting AceFTP. It's shareware, and it nags you, but other than that it seems to work fine.

Posted: 2003-04-30 01:40pm
by The Yosemite Bear
Thanks you two.

Posted: 2003-04-30 01:47pm
by Hotfoot
Filezilla works rather well for me, and has a quite attractive and functional interface.

Posted: 2003-04-30 02:11pm
by Beowulf
Kelly Antilles wrote:I use WSFTP Lite (it's a freeware, I think). Works for me, plus it's rather simple.
Second.

Posted: 2003-04-30 02:40pm
by Kenny_10_Bellys
WS_FTP Lite for me too. I tried others but they just nagged me to death or ceased to function, but WS has always been there for me.

Posted: 2003-04-30 02:42pm
by Einhander Sn0m4n
Kenny_10_Bellys wrote:WS_FTP Lite for me too. I tried others but they just nagged me to death or ceased to function, but WS has always been there for me.
Now all I need is a domain name (no shitty Geo$hitties or ProHo$ing for me!) and I'll have as much pic space as I want!

Posted: 2003-04-30 03:45pm
by Pu-239
FTP Explorer (GUI) or NCFTP(command line). I find Filezilla to be too unreliable for huge files.

Posted: 2003-04-30 03:47pm
by Shinova
I'm using SmartFTP right now but am looking for anything better.

Posted: 2003-04-30 05:49pm
by Dalton
Cute FTP can handle file resumes, but I think it's shareware.

Posted: 2003-04-30 08:55pm
by Vertigo1
Kelly Antilles wrote:I use WSFTP Lite (it's a freeware, I think). Works for me, plus it's rather simple.
Same here. Its free if you get the LE edition. Its got alot of functionality for being a free program. The pay version only has a windows explorer-like interface.

Anywho, I've been using it for years and I've yet to run into anything that this program couldn't do.

Posted: 2003-04-30 09:45pm
by Hotfoot
Pu-239 wrote:FTP Explorer (GUI) or NCFTP(command line). I find Filezilla to be too unreliable for huge files.
I'll look into them. So far, Filezilla seems to be doing more or less okay.

Posted: 2003-05-01 03:22pm
by Pu-239
Well Filezilla is only unsuitable if you are trying to download Linux ISO images on a 26.4kbps connection...

I don't like to use anything with lite in the name for some reason.

Posted: 2003-05-01 06:01pm
by Faram
Blah GUI ftp clients is for wusses ;)

Fire up a command prompt and use cmd based ftp.

Like this :D

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D:\>ftp
ftp> open ftp.sunet.se
Connected to ftp.sunet.se.
220-####################################################################
220-### Try accessing us on the World Wide Web! http://ftp.sunet.se/ ###
220-###                                                              ###
220-### http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/ to browse...                        ###
220-###                                                              ###
220-### http://ftp.sunet.se:8000/ftpsearch to search for filenames   ###
220-###                                                              ###
220-### http://ftp.sunet.se/mnogo/search.php to freetext search      ###
220-###                                                              ###
220-####################################################################
220-
220--> Please login with user anonymous or ftp to access our archive <-
220
User (ftp.sunet.se:(none)): anonymous
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
230 Login successful. Have fun.
ftp> binary
200 Switching to Binary mode.
ftp> hash
Hash mark printing On  ftp: (2048 bytes/hash mark)
ftp>
Be macho use the cli interfase :D

Posted: 2003-05-01 06:47pm
by phongn
Learning the command-line FTP app is good since almost all operating systems come with it :)

That said, the Windows CLI FTP client doesn't support file resuming and is not easy to use PASV mode with.

Posted: 2003-05-01 06:49pm
by salm
windows commander can detect hidden files.