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From: bellamy@covax.commerce.uq.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: FTP for MacTCP?
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.145906.3217@covax.commerce.uq.oz.au>
Date: 12 Jun 91 04:59:06 GMT
References: <30989@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991Jun12.004143.13195@wolves.uucp>
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In article <1991Jun12.004143.13195@wolves.uucp>, ggw@wolves.uucp (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes:
> In article <30989@hydra.gatech.EDU> ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU 
> (Eric Sheppard) writes:
>>I asked a while ago about this, but only got a few confused replies.
>>I have a stock Mac II machine with Ethertalk card, and MacTCP 1.0.1.
>>I am currently using NCSA Telnet 2.2-TCP for communications, but there
>>_still_ is no FTP.  By FTP, I mean I want to initiate an FTP session
>>from the Mac to a remote host for file transfer.  I do *not* want to
>>telnet to that host and start a reverse-FTP session like with the non-TCP
>>Telnet and 2.3 Telnet.  Telnet and FTP exist as two different programs for
>>the MSDOS machines, doesn't it exist for the Macintosh?  Where?
> 
> As a simple answer - NO, there is no ftp client that I am aware of for
> the Mac.
> 
> It should be relatively easy to make one that can go out from the mac
> and poke at other servers, but I haven't seen or heard of one.
> 
> Given that the NCSA Telnet source code is available, and ftp client code
> is available, you could try to roll your own.
> 
> I anyone knows of such a beast, please post.

No.  Try the BYU modified NCSA Telnet (currently at 2.3.4 so take care with 
System 7.0; the official NCSA version is at 2.4b11 and is compatible with 
System 7.0).  It is available from a variety of sources including
zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu  [128.174.20.50] in the Contributions subdir.

Cheers

-- 
David E. Bellamy        Email: bellamy@covax.commerce.uq.oz.au
Dept. Commerce, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, AUSTRALIA