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Re: xftp: does it exist and where?

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From: Bob Haar
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 18:01
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In article 15840@fcom.cc.utah.edu, tcrook@u.cc.utah.edu (Tom Crook) writes:
|>I recall seeing references to "xftp" in this newsgroup recently.
|>I envision it as an X client with menus and nice fill-in-the-blanks 
|>dialogs in place of ftp's command line arguments.  It would have
|>a file-list to show the current working directory of the remote
|>machine.
|>
|>Is there such a beast available, based on Motif or lower level X stuff?

I use ftptool, which provides an interactive interface for ftp
ans is driven by remote and local "directory browser" windows.

This is intended for OpenWindows, but can be compiled under
normal X if you have the right libraries (xview3 ?).



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	Robert Haar               InterNet : rhaar@gmr.com 
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