Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???
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On 04/18/07 19:02, Randy Patterson wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 April 2007 17:51, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 04/18/07 16:29, Randy Patterson wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>>> I have installed a couple of the programs and tried Konqueror. But I need
>>> a little more than drag and drop functionality. With the 3dftp program I
>>> used in Windoze you could sync a local directory with a remote site based
>>> upon criteria such as file size and date. You could also setup include
>>> and exclude filters as well on both files and directories. There was a
>>> little learning curve but once you had a site configured you could work
>>> all day on a site locally and at the end of the day just connect to the
>>> remote site, choose the sync direction and your que list was filled. I am
>>> looking for an FTP client on Debian with similar functionality and hoping
>>> to narrow down the number of programs to look at.
>> Ah, so what you *really* want is a website synching app, correct?
>
> Well, yes, more or less. I have always used FTP in the past but now that you
> have sort of raise the subject I don't guess I have a requirement for a
> certain protocol so it wouldn't have to be an FTP client! :-) A good FTP
> client makes for a good general purpose tool for doing a number of different
> jobs, website synching would be one of them. I would be open to suggestions
> for an alternative! I think you can teach an old dog new tricks! :-) I have
> already downloaded some of the suggested FTP clients for a test run.
I can guarantee you that any site-sync app will, or can, use the FTP
protocol. It just won't be a GP FTP client.
The command "apt-cache search web sync | sort" displays, among 32
other packages, the sitecopy package. It might not be exactly what
you are looking for, though.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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