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Subject: NcFTP 1.6.0 - Alternative User Interface for FTP
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Archive-name: ncftp/part01
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Environment: UNIX, ANSI-C, !SVR4
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Supersedes: ncftp: Volume 39, Issue 53-57
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NcFTP - Alternative user interface for FTP
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Version 1.6.0 by Mike Gleason, NCEMRSoft.
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I used to list the features of ncftp in this blurb, but there are just
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too many to list. Even if you only ftp occasionally, it is worth your
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time to install ncftp (or atleast bug your sysadmin to). If you won't take
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my word for it, just ask around, or extract this archive and read the
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man page.
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1.6.0 is an "evolutionary" upgrade, which consolidates all the previous
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patches and adds a little. 1.6 and 1.5 are "interim" versions between
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2.0 which has been suspended indefinitely due to time constraints.
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Major changes since 1.5.6:
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* Built-in support for the "term" package, used by Linux, etc.
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* SCO Xenix, Besta, AIX 2, AIX 3, Dynix/PTX support
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* Better ISC Unix support.
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* Several bug fixes.
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Major changes since 1.0.2:
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* Supports the Getline (input-edit) and GNU Readline command-line
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editing and history libraries.
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* Supports the Socks firewall library, and another firewall gateway
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implementation.
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* Terrific new "recent-sites" file that automatically saves the
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sites you call; when you open a site in the recent-sites file
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(of course you can abbreviate the names), you start in the
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same directory you were in last time.
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* Improved on-line help, and tips on how to use the program better
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are printed each time you run the program.
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* Rewritten man page.
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* Faster ascii transfers.
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* Typing 'open' by itself lists all the sites the program knows
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about (the ones in your .netrc and the recent-sites list) so
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you can just pick one.
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* Enhanced colon-mode, that can dump a file to stdout (ftpcat mode)
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or to a pager. (i.e. ncftp -c wu:/README >/dev/null).
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* You can choose whether an open is anonymous by default (like it
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had always been) or a user login by default by setting a new
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program variable.
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* Bugs fixed.
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Read the enclosed file, v2_Notes, which explains why I won't be
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able to work on the nearly finished, and much improved v2.0.
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