tnftp 20050625 review

tnftp (formerly known as lukemftp) is a port of the NetBSD FTP client to other systems

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 306K Developer: Luke Mewburn

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tnftp (formerly known as lukemftp) is a port of the NetBSD FTP client to other systems. It offers many enhancements over the traditional BSD FTP client, including command-line editing, command-line fetches of FTP and HTTP URLs (including via proxies), command-line uploads of FTP URLs, context-sensitive word completion, dynamic progress bar, IPv6 support, modification time preservation, paging of local and remote files, passive mode support (with fallback to active mode), SOCKS support, TIS FWTK gate-ftp server support, and transfer rate throttling. tnftp is the default FTP client found in FreeBSD, MacOS X, NetBSD, and SuSE Linux.

What's New in This Release:
Portability fixes were made for Mac OS X, Unixware, IRIX, Linux, and other platforms. Timeout support during connection initiation was improved. An overly long input line is now prevented from causing a core dump. The checks that ensure an mget filename isn't outside the local current working directory were improved.