Thanks, dcj! Insented.
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Cass - Nov 02, 2005 4:15:58 pm PST #5399 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Nutty - Nov 02, 2005 4:26:09 pm PST #5400 of 10003
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I feel the need to report that at work today, I received files via FTP, and did it all from the command line, a procedure I have not done in years and years. The only things I had to look up were "that command you have to do so the files you get aren't all nonsense" (bin) and "that command so you can not have to get files each by its own name, one by one" (mget).
I was smartastic!! And I realized that (a) my company has no default GUI FTP software and (b) I am the only person in my whole department, including the tech liaison, who knows how to FTP via command.
Is that weird?
DXMachina - Nov 02, 2005 4:51:41 pm PST #5401 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Nutty am genius.
Will they not let you install a GUI FTP client?
§ ita § - Nov 02, 2005 5:10:09 pm PST #5402 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Can't you use IE to do FTP? It's not great, but in work environments not like mine it's usable.
Nutty - Nov 02, 2005 5:13:44 pm PST #5403 of 10003
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I did not know IE had its own FTP business. Just, you type ftp.blahblah.com into the URL space?
I think that other depts. must use FTP a lot more often than we do, so there is surely an FTP client around somewhere. But, the software installation for our group is so wonky that I am the only one with Acrobat Pro, while my colleague down the hall is the only one with Illustrator Pro. Is he an illustrator? No. Am I a big fan of PDFs? No.
Actually most of the FTP-ers are likely Mac users, and a whole group works in Quark. My group doesn't deal with the Quark group directly, most of the time; they have an intermediary that translates Quark back into normal desktop-talk.
tommyrot - Nov 02, 2005 5:16:03 pm PST #5404 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I've heard that if you're FTPing big files, the transfer is more likely to crap out if you're using a browser instead of a dedicated FTP client. I heard this years ago, so I have no idea if it's still true.
I've used some nice Linux GUI FTP clients, but if I'm on a PC or a Mac I usually use the command-line ftp program (because I haven't found decent free GUI FTP clients for PC or Mac).
Matt H - Nov 02, 2005 5:17:45 pm PST #5405 of 10003
Musikalicen Opfer
'Scuse the interruption, since I so seldom post, but CuteFTP and SmartFTP are good and cheap graphical ftp clients and easily found on the web. That said, InterSoft's graphical ftp client bundled with their SmartTerm terminal emulator is the One True Client....
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§ ita § - Nov 02, 2005 5:18:41 pm PST #5406 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
CuteFTP drives me nuts. I ended up buying WSFTP for my PC. Haven't settled on something for the Mac yet -- still use commandline here.
DCJensen - Nov 02, 2005 5:20:05 pm PST #5407 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Have you tried Cyberduck? I have not. [link]
tommyrot - Nov 02, 2005 5:20:43 pm PST #5408 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm morally opposed to spending $ on an FTP program. Dunno why - it just seems to me that FTP programs should be free.