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- Subject: NcFTP 1.5.0 - Alternative User Interface for FTP
-
- Archive-name: ncftp/part01
- Environment: UNIX, ANSI-C, !SVR4
-
- NcFTP - Alternative user interface for FTP
- Version 1.5.0 by Mike Gleason, NCEMRSoft.
-
- I used to list the features of ncftp in this blurb, but there are just
- too many to list. Even if you only ftp occasionally, it is worth your
- time to install ncftp (or atleast bug your sysadmin to). If you won't take
- my word for it, just ask around, or extract this archive and read the
- man page.
-
- Note: May not work correctly with System V R 4 (and Solaris 2.2).
-
- Major changes since 1.0.2:
-
- * Supports the Getline (input-edit) and GNU Readline command-line
- editing and history libraries.
-
- * Supports the Socks firewall library, and another firewall gateway
- implementation.
-
- * Terrific new "recent-sites" file that automatically saves the
- sites you call; when you open a site in the recent-sites file
- (of course you can abbreviate the names), you start in the
- same directory you were in last time.
-
- * Improved on-line help, and tips on how to use the program better
- are printed each time you run the program.
-
- * Rewritten man page.
-
- * Faster ascii transfers.
-
- * Typing 'open' by itself lists all the sites the program knows
- about (the ones in your .netrc and the recent-sites list) so
- you can just pick one.
-
- * Enhanced colon-mode, that can dump a file to stdout (ftpcat mode)
- or to a pager. (i.e. ncftp -c wu:/README >/dev/null).
-
- * You can choose whether an open is anonymous by default (like it
- had always been) or a user login by default by setting a new
- program variable.
-
- * Bugs fixed.
-
- Read the enclosed file, v2_Notes, which explains why I won't be
- able to work on the nearly finished, and much improved v2.0.
-
-