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Subject: NcFTP 1.6.0 - Alternative User Interface for FTP Archive-name: ncftp/part01 Environment: UNIX, ANSI-C, !SVR4 Supersedes: ncftp: Volume 39, Issue 53-57 NcFTP - Alternative user interface for FTP Version 1.6.0 by Mike Gleason, NCEMRSoft. I used to list the features of ncftp in this blurb, but there are just too many to list. Even if you only ftp occasionally, it is worth your time to install ncftp (or atleast bug your sysadmin to). If you won't take my word for it, just ask around, or extract this archive and read the man page. 1.6.0 is an "evolutionary" upgrade, which consolidates all the previous patches and adds a little. 1.6, like 1.5 are "interim" versions between 2.0 which has been suspended indefinitely due to time constraints. Major changes since 1.5.6: ------------------------- * Built-in support for the "term" package, used by Linux, etc. * SCO Xenix, Besta, AIX 2, AIX 3, Dynix/PTX support * Better ISC Unix support. * Several bug fixes. Major changes since 1.0.2: ------------------------- * Supports the Getline (input-edit) and GNU Readline command-line editing and history libraries. * Supports the Socks firewall library, and another firewall gateway implementation. * Terrific new "recent-sites" file that automatically saves the sites you call; when you open a site in the recent-sites file (of course you can abbreviate the names), you start in the same directory you were in last time. * Improved on-line help, and tips on how to use the program better are printed each time you run the program. * Rewritten man page. * Faster ascii transfers. * Typing 'open' by itself lists all the sites the program knows about (the ones in your .netrc and the recent-sites list) so you can just pick one. * Enhanced colon-mode, that can dump a file to stdout (ftpcat mode) or to a pager. (i.e. ncftp -c wu:/README >/dev/null). * You can choose whether an open is anonymous by default (like it had always been) or a user login by default by setting a new program variable. * Bugs fixed. Read the enclosed file, v2_Notes, which explains why I won't be able to work on the nearly finished, and much improved v2.0.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.