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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Michael Lewis <m1ewis@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ftp clients
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* Michael Lewis <m1ewis@hotmail.com> [000307 14:29] wrote:
> Hello, this seems more appropriate for freebsd-newbies, but I understand 
> that you're not supposed to submit questions there, so...
> 
> I've just got my modem to connect to my ISP using ppp.  Now I need to be 
> able to use ftp.  I've never used any command-line ftp client -- just 
> CuteFTP (Windows) and Fetch.  I have gnome/afterstep installed, but can't 
> find any ftp client there (I'm having trouble navigating gnome so maybe 
> that's the problem).  When I look at the ftp packages on the v3.4 CDROM I 
> find 28 ftp's to choose from.  I've looked at ftp in the shell and have 
> printed the man pages for ftp.  Should I stick with shell ftp or is there 
> something for gnome or is one of the 28 selections on the CD better for me 
> to use?

See the file DESCR in the port's 'pkg' directory, they'll usually have
a WWW: url to the homepage of the program, maybe you can make a decision
based on what features are detailed on the program's homepage.

-Alfred


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