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Macintosh Freeware ftp?
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| Andrew 2007-03-23, 7:18 pm |
| Hi,
My father will be taking over the HTML for his family history site for a
short period, goodbye to all the carefully worked HTML I guess :-) I am a
Linux user while he is a Macintosh user so I have little advice for him as
regards a dedicated ftp program for Mac.
Is there a freeware ftp program out there for Mac that is simple
and reliable? Double pane view: local to remote sort of simple?
I have used WS_FTP LE and Filezilla for Windows and am currently using
gFTP for Linux but all my googling has not found a Mac equivalent.
Any help would be appreciated!!
Andrew
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Andrew Strong
http://www.strong-family.org
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| Andrew wrote:
> Hi,
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> My father will be taking over the HTML for his family history site for a
> short period, goodbye to all the carefully worked HTML I guess :-) I am a
> Linux user while he is a Macintosh user so I have little advice for him as
> regards a dedicated ftp program for Mac.
>
> Is there a freeware ftp program out there for Mac that is simple
> and reliable? Double pane view: local to remote sort of simple?
>
> I have used WS_FTP LE and Filezilla for Windows and am currently using
> gFTP for Linux but all my googling has not found a Mac equivalent.
http://filezilla-project.org/nightly.php
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Els http://locusmeus.com/
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| SpaceGirl wrote:
> On Mar 23, 8:37 am, Els <els.aNOS...@tiscali.nl> wrote:
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> Pretty sure the Mac version is incomplete. I use Duck, which is fine.
> And free. And complete.
I only Googled - as I don't have a Mac, I didn't test it :-)
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Els http://locusmeus.com/
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| Toby A Inkster 2007-03-23, 7:19 pm |
| Andrew wrote:
> Is there a freeware ftp program out there for Mac that is simple
> and reliable? Double pane view: local to remote sort of simple?
Not really sure as I don't do FTP much.
But I'm pretty sure that TextWrangler (wonderful text editor for Mac --
wish there was a Linux version too!) has an option to be able to open from
and save to remote FTP servers. (It definitely works for scp as I use it
frequently -- but not sure if it also supports FTP.)
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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact
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| Sally Thompson 2007-03-23, 7:19 pm |
| On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:35:15 +0000, Andrew wrote
(in article <pan.2007.03.23.08.35.14.785718@sorrynospam.invalid> ):
> Hi,
>
> My father will be taking over the HTML for his family history site for a
> short period, goodbye to all the carefully worked HTML I guess :-) I am a
> Linux user while he is a Macintosh user so I have little advice for him as
> regards a dedicated ftp program for Mac.
>
> Is there a freeware ftp program out there for Mac that is simple
> and reliable? Double pane view: local to remote sort of simple?
>
> I have used WS_FTP LE and Filezilla for Windows and am currently using
> gFTP for Linux but all my googling has not found a Mac equivalent.
>
> Any help would be appreciated!!
FireFTP: <https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/684/> is a free add-on for
Firefox, very simple and reliable, with pane on left for local files and pane
on right for remote. Lots of Mac software on versiontracker if you are
looking for anything else although if he is a Mac user he probably knows
this.
If he wants a reasonable text editor with coloured syntax, I can recommend
Smultron: <http://smultron.sourceforge.net/> (also free). Has other nice
features and although it isn't as feature-packed as HTML-Kit, which I used to
use on Windows, it is pretty good.
--
Sally in Shropshire, UK
bed and breakfast near Ludlow: http://www.stonybrook-ludlow.co.uk
Burne-Jones/William Morris window in Shropshire church:
http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk
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| Nikita the Spider 2007-03-23, 7:19 pm |
| In article <pan.2007.03.23.08.35.14.785718@sorrynospam.invalid>,
Andrew <andrew@sorrynospam.invalid> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My father will be taking over the HTML for his family history site for a
> short period, goodbye to all the carefully worked HTML I guess :-) I am a
> Linux user while he is a Macintosh user so I have little advice for him as
> regards a dedicated ftp program for Mac.
>
> Is there a freeware ftp program out there for Mac that is simple
> and reliable? Double pane view: local to remote sort of simple?
>
> I have used WS_FTP LE and Filezilla for Windows and am currently using
> gFTP for Linux but all my googling has not found a Mac equivalent.
Andrew,
I use Fugu. It doesn't support FTP, but it does support SFTP. FTP sends
your password over the Net in plaintext; SFTP does not so you might want
to consider using that instead. Fugu's interface looks just like that of
an FTP client.
My $8/month ISP supports SFTP and think most other ISPs would since it
is also a hassle for them if your FTP password gets hacked.
http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/
HTH
--
Philip
http://NikitaTheSpider.com/
Whole-site HTML validation, link checking and more
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| Andrew 2007-03-23, 7:19 pm |
| On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:19:37 -0700, SpaceGirl wrote:
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> Pretty sure the Mac version is incomplete. I use Duck, which is fine.
> And free. And complete.
Hi!
This is CyberDuck?
http://cyberduck.ch/
Looks good. I cannot test it as I am using linux: does it operate by
dragging files onto the 'remote' window?
Thanks for your trouble,
Andrew
--
Andrew Strong
http://people.aapt.net.au/~adjlstrong/
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| Andrew 2007-03-23, 7:20 pm |
| On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:49:38 -0400, Nikita the Spider wrote:
> In article <pan.2007.03.23.08.35.14.785718@sorrynospam.invalid>,
> Andrew <andrew@sorrynospam.invalid> wrote:
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> Andrew,
> I use Fugu. It doesn't support FTP, but it does support SFTP. FTP sends
> your password over the Net in plaintext; SFTP does not so you might want
> to consider using that instead. Fugu's interface looks just like that of
> an FTP client.
>
> My $8/month ISP supports SFTP and think most other ISPs would since it
> is also a hassle for them if your FTP password gets hacked.
>
> http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/
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> HTH
Hi Philip,
Thanks for that. I have downloaded Fugu for him as well as Cyberduck (my
father is still on dial-up) . He can chose from there, although he is
apparently limited by whatever point upgrade of OS X he has.
Thanks a lot,
Andrew
--
Andrew Strong
http://people.aapt.net.au/~adjlstrong/
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| E-Star 2007-03-23, 7:20 pm |
| Write a simple terminal script. All it could require him to do is
double click it.
Andrew <andrew@sorrynospam.invalid> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:49:38 -0400, Nikita the Spider wrote:
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> [..]
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> Hi Philip,
>
> Thanks for that. I have downloaded Fugu for him as well as Cyberduck (my
> father is still on dial-up) . He can chose from there, although he is
> apparently limited by whatever point upgrade of OS X he has.
>
> Thanks a lot,
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> Andrew
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| Sally Thompson 2007-03-24, 7:17 am |
| On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:04:09 +0000, Andrew wrote
(in article <pan.2007.03.23.22.04.08.754653@sorrynospam.invalid> ):
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:19:37 -0700, SpaceGirl wrote:
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> Hi!
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> This is CyberDuck?
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> http://cyberduck.ch/
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> Looks good. I cannot test it as I am using linux: does it operate by
> dragging files onto the 'remote' window?
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I'm not SpaceGirl, but answering your question. Cyberduck does operate that
way, but you have to have a Finder window open separately to drag local files
across. That's why I thought your father might prefer FireFTP which he can
use within Firefox (there's a button specially for FireFTP) where both panes
(local and remote) are contained within the same application.
--
Sally in Shropshire, UK
bed and breakfast near Ludlow: http://www.stonybrook-ludlow.co.uk
Burne-Jones/William Morris window in Shropshire church:
http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk
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| SEOwebMarket.com 2007-03-24, 11:16 pm |
| On Mar 23, 3:35 am, Andrew <and...@sorrynospam.invalid> wrote:
> Is there a freeware ftp program out there for Mac that is simple
> and reliable? Double pane view: local to remote sort of simple?
I use FETCH for FTP (10+ years).
- Brett (www.SEOwebMarket.com)
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| SpaceGirl 2007-03-26, 7:20 pm |
| On Mar 23, 11:04 pm, Andrew <and...@sorrynospam.invalid> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:19:37 -0700, SpaceGirl wrote:
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> Hi!
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> This is CyberDuck?
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> http://cyberduck.ch/
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> Looks good. I cannot test it as I am using linux: does it operate by
> dragging files onto the 'remote' window?
That's the one. It does do drag and drop, multiple windows, transfer
lists etc. I think I prefer FileZilla, but as Fz isn't on OS X yet, I
use CyberDuck.
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