The Client Interface
1 : Menu Bar
Use the Menu Bar to control some of the operations of the
client. There are other shortcuts to all of the
functions within the menu bar, and these will be pointed out
at the appropriate place.
Menu Items
- File
- Check Internet for Updates &
Announcements. Use this to check for the
latest version of EFTP that is available for
download. This will connect to the internet, and
download the index.html file of our main web site.
In this file there is a meta tag which defines the version
number. There is also a meta tag which gives
announcements - both of these will be displayed in the
Status Panels
- Exit. This does what it says - it closes the
program down.
- Transfer
- Process Queue. This starts
the processing the transfer queue (see Client
Activity). Clicking this again will stop the
processing - NB not all FTP Servers support this feature
(ABORT).
- Transfer Type. This changes
the transfer type to one of the 3 options below.
- Automatic. The program
will automatically choose (based on the internal list -
see Preferences) to transfer the file in Binary or ASCII
mode.
- ASCII. The program will
transfer ALL files as ASCII, regardless of the type of
file. Use this option with CAUTION, or your
transferred files may become corrupt.
- Binary. The program will transfer ALL files as
binary, regardless of the type of file. This
option is usually not lethal to use, however it is
always advised to use Automatic.
- Help
- Help. This is what you probably clicked to bring
up this help file.
2 : Page Selector
Using the page selector you can choose from one of the 4
main pages in EFTP.
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