Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!hsdndev!cmcl2!esquire!baumgart From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: FTP for MacTCP? Message-ID: Date: 12 Jun 91 13:35:49 GMT References: <30989@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991Jun12.004143.13195@wolves.uucp> Sender: news@DPW.COM Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm Organization: Davis Polk & Wardwell Lines: 35 In-reply-to: ggw@wolves.uucp's message of 12 Jun 91 00:41:43 GMT In article <1991Jun12.004143.13195@wolves.uucp> ggw@wolves.uucp (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes: 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. Versaterm 4.5 (and Versaterm PRO) come with a very nice FTP client tool (for the Comm. Toolbox) and separate application (so you don't have to start up Versaterm just to FTP files). You can send and receive to and from a remote host, and the interface is very nice -- sort of like a standard file box for browsing the remote host and retrieving files, and a Font/DA Mover-like interface for sending files. It also comes with an cdev that allows you to FTP *into* your Mac from a remote host and transfer files back and forth. You can set up some password-protected accounts to keep out those who you don't want snooping around your Mac. All of this works very well, and some decidedly non-technical folks here are using it regularly. Versaterm (which also happens to be an outstanding comm. program) goes for around $90 from MacConnection; I think it's one of the best bargains around. (Standard disclaimer: I'm just a long-standing and very happy customer.) -- Steve Baumgarten | "New York... when civilization falls apart, Davis Polk & Wardwell | remember, we were way ahead of you." baumgart@esquire.dpw.com | cmcl2!esquire!baumgart | - David Letterman