NcFTP Client

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NcFTP Client
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Version: 3.2.5
Upload Date: 2 Jan 15
Developer: NcFTP Software
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 17

Rating: nan/5 (Total Votes: 0)

The purpose of ncftp is to provide a powerful and flexible interface to the Internet standard File Transfer Protocol. It is intended to replace the stock ftp program that comes with the system.

Although the program appears to be rather spartan, you'll find that ncftp has a wealth of valuable performance and usage features. The program was designed with an emphasis on usability, and it does as much as it can for you automatically so you can do what you expect to do with a file transfer program, which is transfer files between two interconnected systems.

Some of the cooler features include progress meters, filename completion, command-line editing, background processing, auto-resume downloads, bookmarking, cached directory listings, host redialing, working with firewalls and proxies, downloading entire directory trees, etc., etc.

The ncftp distribution comes with the useful utility programs ncftpget(1) and ncftpput(1) which were designed to do command-line FTP. In particular, they are very handy for shell scripts. This version of ncftp no longer does command-line FTP, since the main ncftp program is more of a browser-type program.

What is new in this release:

  • Ncftpget and ncftpput can now read $HOME/.ncftp/bookmarks and take a bookmark name in place of a hostname. If the hostname specified is not fully qualified (i.e. does not contain a period), then bookmarks will be queried; if no bookmarks match, then a local hostname is assumed. Bookmarks are also queried for the config file option, -f, when the file specified by -f does not exist.

  • Compatibility fixes for FreeBSD 8.

  • Support for local validation of DNSSEC when combined with libraries available from the DNSSEC Tools project (Thanks, Robert Story).

  • Microsoft disabled recursive directory listings altogether when fixing KB975254 (Thanks, Andrew Coggeshall). When entire directories are downloaded, instead of using "LIST -R" for one efficient listing of all files, the directories are manually traversed with one directory listing for each subdirectory. This will improve reliability of recursive downloads, except for the case when their are circular symbolic links (which is why "LIST -R" had been favored, which the server can easily handle).

  • Compatibility fixes for Mac OS X for building from source code (Thanks, Mathieu Rene)

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