though it has to be done by choosing Smultron as the editor on the FTP program, I think.
Yes, that's how it is with whichever exernal editor you're using with FTP.
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amych - May 19, 2009 8:43:43 am PDT #10016 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
§ ita § - May 19, 2009 9:05:42 am PDT #10017 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
that's how it is with whichever exernal editor you're using with FTP.
You don't have to do that with TextWrangler (or UltraEdit). They have FTP programs embedded in them--you can either open from disc or open from an FTP site.
le nubian - May 19, 2009 10:20:24 am PDT #10018 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I love Speed Download, but it is not free. It is bombtastic though.
§ ita § - May 19, 2009 10:33:51 am PDT #10019 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It does look pretty impressive.
I don't know what my priorities are--I don't know if that's the sort of thing I'd have paid for if I were liquid.
The two paid for things I had to put back on this pesky little box of mine were Bluephone Elite and Solavant Solitaire. Bless both of them for having the facility for me to re-download the full versions without going through any customer service rigmarole. Lord knows with the number of time I've had to jump through UltraEdit hoops to get it back (especially while I wasn't at the most recent version) I should have my install images locked away somewhere disasterproof.
Gris - May 19, 2009 10:50:54 am PDT #10020 of 25501
Hey. New board.
They have FTP programs embedded in them--you can either open from disc or open from an FTP site.
That is pretty cool, though you could get the same effect by mounting the FTP site as a drive. Go->Connect To Server in the Finder allows this, and you could automate it (I think) by putting a symbolic link to its root folder (or www folder or whatever) in your Home or Documents or something. Then you would open it just like a folder on your drive, and if the server needed to connect it would do so. It's some seriously Unix thinking, but it would work.
Still, probably easier if it's built in to the program.
§ ita § - May 19, 2009 11:38:15 am PDT #10021 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
it would work
I can't even get my Leopard box to connect via SAMBA to my Linux box, so "seriously Unix thinking" is mostly an irritant right now.
Ah! Okay, it worked. Finally. Did Tiger have a "Go/Connect To Server..." option? I don't remember it.
If I create a symbolic link on the hard drive, what happens when I need to log in to an FTP/SFTP location?
probably easier if it's built in to the program.
No probably about it.
amych - May 19, 2009 11:44:22 am PDT #10022 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Did Tiger have a "Go/Connect To Server..." option?
I think all flavors of OS X have had it (I know for sure that Panther did, but before that... well, we've seen that I'm fuzzy on the deets of stuff I set up a while ago).
§ ita § - May 19, 2009 11:46:34 am PDT #10023 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
we've seen that I'm fuzzy on the deets of stuff I set up a while ago
Apparently I'm fuzzy on an OS I used daily just a few weeks ago, so really, who looks bad?
le nubian - May 19, 2009 11:53:07 am PDT #10024 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I download a whole lot of stuff on webdav, ftp, and other places (e.g. rapidshare) and speed download has paid for itself over and over in ease of use.
but I understand about the not liquid part.
omnis_audis - May 19, 2009 11:56:15 am PDT #10025 of 25501
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sssh. rumor has it, U-verse is coming out with an app and gizmo to transfer recordings to the iPhone.