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Gris - Nov 02, 2005 7:11:25 pm PST #5422 of 10003
Hey. New board.

Yeah, I've never found a free GUI FTP client on OS X that serves me well. Cyberduck works, sort of, but not very well, and most others cost (though not too much, and if I did lots of ftp work I'd buy Transmit in a second).

The built-in ftp program for OS X has remote tab completion, though, so I'm okay using it most of the time. And I've also installed ncftp on the command line, which is even better (local AND remote tab completion! Easy to save bookmarks to various sites! And so forth!)


§ ita § - Nov 02, 2005 7:12:22 pm PST #5423 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

ncftp's not bad, although I've only used it in Linux. I quite liked it.


Gris - Nov 02, 2005 7:22:48 pm PST #5424 of 10003
Hey. New board.

Yeah, when I first realized that I could install a command-line program for ftp that had many useful features was a great day for me.

Now, of course, I open up my Terminal once a week at the most (and that's usually just to run "cal" because i'm too lazy to open a GUI calendar program. If I install Tiger on this laptop, the dashboard calendar will remove even that need.) But once, I was truly a geek. Once.


Eddie - Nov 02, 2005 7:29:40 pm PST #5425 of 10003
Your tag here.

I did not know IE had its own FTP business. Just, you type ftp.blahblah.com into the URL space?

To answer the question for the record, the syntax is

ftp://ftp.blahblah.com


P.M. Marc - Nov 02, 2005 7:50:59 pm PST #5426 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

While we're on the subject, is there anything remotely like HTML Kit (which is my one-stop solution for editing and FTPing shit) for the Mac? Because man, I miss HTML Kit, and I hate having to go to the basement to use it.


Gris - Nov 02, 2005 7:58:52 pm PST #5427 of 10003
Hey. New board.

Is HTML kit just a nice text editor with FTP access? Cuz, if so, I believe TextWrangler can do that.

If it's more than that, well, I am completely not of the knowing. Sorry.


Jon B. - Nov 03, 2005 3:00:56 am PST #5428 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I use SecureFX cause I could get it from MIT for free and because some sites I use require Secure FTP connections.


amych - Nov 03, 2005 3:03:15 am PST #5429 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I use SecureFX cause I could get it from MIT for free and because some sites I use require Secure FTP connections.

I use Fugu for the same reason. Except for the MIT part.


Jon B. - Nov 03, 2005 3:07:18 am PST #5430 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

When you open the program do you exclaim "Fugu Me!!"?


amych - Nov 03, 2005 3:39:19 am PST #5431 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Sometimes, it's more like "Fugu you!!"