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- Many thanks to M.Gleason for writing this wonderful program. This version
- was incredibly well done and a joy to work with.
-
- Time for a new program.
-
- NcFTP was extensively rewritten by Mike Gleason requiring major porting of
- a curses libary to get it to work. However, once the curses libary was in
- place things went very smoothly.
-
- In the ./man directory is ncftp.man & ncftp.man.print. Which include normal
- documentation and documentation with underlining left in for the printer... :)
-
- Binary gets and puts work very nicely, I'm not so sure about ascii.
-
- Only a home variable is required for this version. Set all your information
- by typing "prefs" the first time you start up.
-
- The documantion specific to Win95 will be rewritten as the program
- stabilizes.
-
- Run the ppp1.reg & ppp2.reg files. On several systems I have tested, these
- correctly setup TCP/IP Setting for the Microsoft TCP/IP stack. These may not
- work on your system.
-
- Colon mode has worked on my limited tests. It only gives a progress reports,
- but no other informative messages.
-
- The program now properly holds the time stamp of the downloaded file and
- can detect and existing file. I need to find an FTP site that has the REST
- command to test aborted retrieves...
-
- The locking method has been rewritten so that it properly detects an already
- runnning instance. I'm not positive this works, but it looks good. :)
-
- Less is available, and the program is tailored for it.
-
- The environment variable HOME is now required. This is to avoid leaving
- ./.ncftp directories all over the place. Also, this will correctly update the
- init files no matter the location of the startup.
-
- For the home environment to work, you must create a directory. Any one will
- do, but for the sake of argument, let's call it C:\HOME.
- Ex.
-
- mkdir c:\home
- set HOME=c:\home
-
- If after testing the program, things work right for you, move
- "set HOME=C:\HOME" into your autoexec.bat, so that it is always available.
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- Known Bugs:
- ls required.
- ^C to abort crashes program. (I does abort the transfer :> )
- To log into a specific directory from the command-line, you must close the
- directory name with a closing '/'
- When using the '!' shell command, the character used to close the shell is
- sent into the program. I don't understand and am looking into it.
- I don't beleive that testing of data and time works correctly on less
- sophisticated FTP deamons.
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- Look at ftp://ftp.probe.net/pub/ncftp/ for the latest version of the unix
- program and unix source code.
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- Contact szurgot@itribe.net for details on the Windows95 program.
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