ftp clients, was: Re: General question about Linux

[Steve Holmes]

When I used to use ncftp, I always used the less command to view files
and never experienced the hung sessions.  I use pdir to view directory
listings and rarely had any trouble.  If I didn't complete the listing
or the pipe, I think I recall hanging briefly but usually got control
back.

I mainly use lftp now because of the other protocols it supports such
as ssh/fish, ftps(ssl), etc.  It's batch processing is pretty cool but
the commands and configuration is a bit more primitive; you have to
put your configs in a file to set them.  Ncftp's bookmarks menu is
better than what lftp does but I gues it might be good to keep both
clients around:).

On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 05:24:17PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> Slackware 8.1 has lftp, but I've never tried it.  However, ncftp usually
> works fine for me especially for background downloading.  You can type
> "bgget file" and it will spool it and you can keep it up until you've
> spooled a complete list of files you want.  Then, when you quit, it will
> start downloading them in the background and won't give up.  It is
> absolutely stubborn about finishing a download.  The only problem I've had
> with Ncftp is that if you use its "page" command to look at a file and
> then quit before reading the entire file, 9 out of 10 times, your
> connection to the server hangs.  I don't know why this is, but it makes
> the command effectively useless.
> 
> 
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