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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Looking for FTP client for mac
Message-ID: <3949@phri.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 89 14:33:25 GMT
Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY
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	Does there exist an ftp client program for the macintosh?  We have
NCSA telnet, and are generally happy with it, but the server-only ftp
support is very frustrating.  It is also very counter-intuitive, especially
for novice users, and very un-mac like.

	We want our Mac users (including secretaries) to be able to
transfer files to and from our Unix systems without having to know anything
about ftp or unix.  The ideal interface would be to start up the ftp
client, have it prompt you for a user name and password, and then present
you with a normal mac-like file diaglog, just like the current "set
transfer directory" (*) dialog, but on the unix side.  I don't see any
reason why an ftp client can't, on its own initiative, get a directory
listing of the remote side, parse the "ls -l" output to discover which
entries are files and which are directories, and present it as a normal
scrollable mac file menu.  Perhaps you could have two side-by-side file
menus, in the style of the Font/DA handler.

	Does such a thing exist?
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