Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 14:34:12 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Michael Lewis <m1ewis@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp clients Message-ID: <20000307143412.L14279@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000307215404.57762.qmail@hotmail.com>; from m1ewis@hotmail.com on Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 01:54:04PM -0800 References: <20000307215404.57762.qmail@hotmail.com>
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* Michael Lewis <m1ewis@hotmail.com> [000307 14:29] wrote: > Hello, this seems more appropriate for freebsd-newbies, but I understand > that you're not supposed to submit questions there, so... > > I've just got my modem to connect to my ISP using ppp. Now I need to be > able to use ftp. I've never used any command-line ftp client -- just > CuteFTP (Windows) and Fetch. I have gnome/afterstep installed, but can't > find any ftp client there (I'm having trouble navigating gnome so maybe > that's the problem). When I look at the ftp packages on the v3.4 CDROM I > find 28 ftp's to choose from. I've looked at ftp in the shell and have > printed the man pages for ftp. Should I stick with shell ftp or is there > something for gnome or is one of the 28 selections on the CD better for me > to use? See the file DESCR in the port's 'pkg' directory, they'll usually have a WWW: url to the homepage of the program, maybe you can make a decision based on what features are detailed on the program's homepage. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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