Re: FTP program for PC's

by "Harold A. Driscoll" <harold(at)driscoll.chi.il.us>

 Date:  Sat, 12 Sep 1998 09:21:48 -0500
 To:  Suzanne Ankerbrand <sankerbrand(at)villagelife.org>
 Cc:  hwg-software(at)hwg.org
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At 11:14 11-09-98 -0400, Suzanne Ankerbrand wrote:
>I'm a Mac person who needs to recommend an ftp 
>program to a client who uses a pc. I would like an 
>easy-to-use, graphic type interface like Fetch. Any
>ideas?

WS_FTP has earned a reputation over many years for being robust, tolerant
of the quirks of a wide range of FTP servers, and very usable. It is
available (shareware) from the usual suspects, such as Tucows
(http://www.tucows.com).

BTW, Windows (NT, my understanding is 9x, and 3.x with wolverine) includes
an FTP client application (named ftp). It is a reasonably good emulation of
the classic UNIX shell ftp client. Perhaps not as robust (as UNIX), but
quite usable. Perhaps, the best example, certainly the best from Microsoft,
of how _not_ to write a Windows application (per _their_ guidelines). If
the client has UNIX experience (e.g. college) then worth considering.

Good luck,  /Harold

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