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Re: O.T. FTP upload

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From	Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: O.T. FTP upload
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On Wednesday, November 2, 2011 2:20:28 PM UTC-7, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:07:10 -0700, Roedy Green wrote:
> 
> > There are hundreds of FTP utilities. What do you use for FTP unattended
> > uploads?
> >
> Short answer: I don't - I generally use gftp, a GUI tool which has the 
> ability to whole directory structures. This is a Linux tool (the g stands 
> for Gnome) but near equivalents are Filezilla (supports Linux, Windows, 
> OS X but has an over-busy GUI) and WS-FTP (Windows-specific if it still 
> exists, very similar to gftp).
> 
> If I was going to use unattended ftp transfers I'd just use the standard 
> Linux command line ftp client because its very easily scriptable. If SSH 
> was available I'd use sftp instead and for the same reasons.
> 
> Are you aware of J-ftp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/j-ftp/
> I haven't tried it, but it has a similar GUI to gftp and handles a 
> variety of protocols including scp.
> 
> > My ISP is still waiting for a round TUIT to set up a VPN to replace FTP.
> >
> If your ISP supports SSH, and most do, that's a good argument for 
> investigating sftp and/or PuTTY (which provides a decent scp command line 
> tool for Windows). 

Or Cygwin, which sports "ssh".

-- 
Lew

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