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- Name : WFTPD 32-bit
- Version : 2.40
- Filename : 32wfd240.ZIP
- FileDate : 7/22/98
- Status : Shareware
- Submitted By: : Author
- Installation Type : No Install Feature
- Company/Author : Texas Imperial Software
- E-Mail :
- Homepage : http://www.wftpd.com/index.htm
- File Location : http://www.wftpd.com/products.htm
- ScreenShot :
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- Description :
- Do you want to turn your Windows machine into an FTP site? Take a tip
- from the book "Setting Up An Internet Site For Dummies":
-
- "Several good shareware FTP server programs are available for Microsoft
- Windows. The one to trust is WFTPD by [Texas Imperial Software]"
-
- Try WFTPD, by Texas Imperial Software. A trial version is available
- from http://www.wftpd.com/products.htm . The full version costs from
- $20 per licence, with big discounts for large volumes.
-
- WFTPD is the only FTP server to be picked by PC Computing magazine as
- one of their "Internet All-Stars Best 1001 Free Downloads From The
- Web", and is registered in use at over 5000 sites (as of July 1998),
- with tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of individual users. (See the
- July 1996 issue of PC Computing, or visit http://www.pccomputing.com
- for details of the "Internet All Stars")
-
- WFTPD is also consistently the highest rated FTP server, with (for
- example) 5 stars in the ZDNet Software library (http://www.zdnet.com),
- 5 cows at The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software
- (http://www.tucows.com) and 3.5 stars at the Stroud Consummate Winsock
- Apps site (http://www.cwsapps.com).
-
- WFTPD is the only FTP server for Windows whose author is an active
- member of the IETF FTP Extensions Working Group. As such, many future
- RFCs are implemented early in WFTPD, and in general more correctly.
- For example, WFTPD is the only Windows FTP server to correctly
- implement restarting of interrupted transfers - even those of our
- competitors that claim to resume transfers do not correctly resume
- uploads at the time of writing.
-
- Some of the new features recently added to WFTPD:
-
- o "Magic Cookies" - include time and date, user's name, disk space
- remaining, etc, in greeting, farewell and navigational messages.
- o STAT command now supports file listing to the control connection
- o Shortcuts (.LNK files) are supported on 32-bit Windows, acting just
- like symbolic links on Unix.
- o UNC (Unified Naming Convention) filenames are supported on 32-bit
- Windows (Windows 3.1x support for UNCs will follow shortly)
- o Transfer statistics included in log file
- o Correct handling of numeric codes at the start of lines in message
- output (even most Unix servers are not entirely RFC compliant in this
- respect)
- o wildcard expansion inside path components
- o additional Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0 user-interface features
- o activity monitor, allowing immediate disconnect of unruly users
- o safety shutdown - waits till users have finished before closing WFTPD
- down
- o sound alert, to inform you of users logging in or out
-
-
- These features have been in WFTPD for many versions now, and were
- mostly introduced to the Windows FTP server market by WFTPD (space
- prevents me from listing all features available):
-
- Compatibility features:
- o may be installed as a service under 32-bit versions of Windows, and
- will not be automatically killed when you log out
- o support for all applicable Unix 'ls' command-line switches - useful
- (even vital) if you want your site to be mirrored using standard
- software
- o strict compliance with Internet RFCs 959 and 1123, as well as several
- draft RFCs.
- o extra FTP commands SIZE and MDTM supported
- o multi-homed site support
- o resume interrupted transfers (at the time of writing, WFTPD is the
- only FTP server for Windows to correctly support resuming of both
- interrupted uploads and downloads)
- o support for non-standard ports
- o works through most firewalls
-
-
- Usability features:
- o easy-to-read help file ("The first help file I read all the way
- through", as one user told me)
- o intuitive yet powerful user interface, following Microsoft's
- Interface Guidelines
- o configurable logging of all client actions, to screen and/or file
- o customisable messages on login, logout, and change of directory
- o all FTP responses can be customised/translated using resource editors
-
-
- Security features:
- o host/network-based acceptance/denial of login
- o idle/hung connection timeout
- o maximum user count
- o "read-only" operating mode
- o individual user rights on directories
- o hidden operation - can be run invisibly
-
-
- As the first standalone FTP server for Windows (now available for all
- Intel versions of Windows, as well as Digital Alpha AXP Windows NT),
- WFTPD has a long history of speed and stability. As a fast, stable FTP
- server, it is in place at major national and international Internet
- Service Providers, phone service companies, software and hardware
- manufacturers, tool shops, space agencies, Universities and even
- Realtors' offices. The author's writing style was so admired by even
- his major competitors that some of them have felt compelled to cut and
- paste from the WFTPD documentation into theirs.
-
- Despite the author working only part time for much of this product's
- development, most of WFTPD's features were first offered to Windows
- users by WFTPD, and many are even now not offered by other FTP servers
- for Windows. The author now works full time on developing and
- supporting WFTPD, another advantage that is not present on many other
- Windows FTP servers.
-
- Upgrade announcements will be sent out to all registered users of
- current versions of WFTPD, at which point they may download and install
- the new version for free. The price of the licence for WFTPD includes
- the first year's maintenance and upgrades. If you are a registered
- user and have not received your upgrade announcement a week after this
- message is first sent out, please email me at alun@texis.com.
-
- Texas Imperial Software recently acquired its newest member, Colin
- Lester Jones (born 5/17-18/96) - buy WFTPD and help pay for baby to get
- some new shoes!
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