Re: Need ftp client
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 02:42:51AM EDT, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 16 Apr 2007, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> >
> > Sometimes it is not just for fun. If you are tranferring just 2 or 3 files,
> > the possibility of doing "mistakes" with GUI is a lot less than using cli.
> >
> > Besides if you are like me and have 20-30 character long file names, which
> > take atleast 8 tab strokes to complete the filename even while employing
> > wildcards, GUI is definitely the way to go (all that involved is just a
> > left mouse click).
> >
> > I do use command line whenever I think it gets the job done efficiently.
> > However I am not averse to using GUI if it gets the job done efficiently.
> > Efficiency is what matters, not how you get the job done. YMMV.
> >
> > hth
> > raju
> >
>
> You can persuade midnight commander to do this kind of thing. It works
> quite well although it took me a bit of time to figure out how to do it.
The Gnu Interactive Tools -- aka git .. etc. are another, possibly
better example.
$ apt-cache show git
$ apt-get install git
$ info git
etc.
Thanks,
cga
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