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Re: O.T. FTP upload

From	Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: O.T. FTP upload
Date	2011-11-02 17:31 -0700
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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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  Re: O.T. FTP upload Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-01 09:33 -0700
    Re: O.T. FTP upload Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-11-01 18:49 +0000
      Re: O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-01 23:40 -0700
    Re: O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-01 23:33 -0700
  Re: O.T. FTP upload Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-01 22:11 -0400
  Re: O.T. FTP upload Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-11-02 21:20 +0000
    Re: O.T. FTP upload Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-02 17:31 -0700
      Re: O.T. FTP upload Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-11-04 21:13 +0000
        Re: O.T. FTP upload Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-04 14:29 -0700
          Re: O.T. FTP upload Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-04 15:12 -0700
          Re: O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-04 15:15 -0700
            Re: O.T. FTP upload Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-04 21:43 -0400
          Re: O.T. FTP upload Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-11-05 19:44 +0000
            Re: O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-06 06:58 -0800
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                Re: O.T. FTP upload Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-08 16:03 +0000
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                Re: O.T. FTP upload Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-13 00:45 +0000
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  Re: O.T. FTP upload Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2011-11-02 16:33 -0700
    Re: O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-03 03:14 -0700
      Re: O.T. FTP upload Gunter Herrmann <notformail0106@earthlink.net> - 2011-11-03 10:24 -0400
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    Re: NOT O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-03 08:09 -0700
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      Re: NOT O.T. FTP upload Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-03 22:26 -0400

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