Gerald Britton's                 gftp                              README
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This FTP client was one i originally found on sunsite.unc.edu as
ftp-rl-with-ticks.tar.z .. i have patched it up some more.

It now has a full transfer status line showing:
	bytes xfered, total bytes, elapsed time, remaining time, Kb/sec

It also makes some useful command aliases:
	ftp --> open, exit --> quit

It defaults to anonymous login, normal login can be performed by starting
it like "ftp -u <host>" .. it performes anonymous login as user "ftp" and
sends "<username>@<contents of /etc/HOSTNAME" as the password. I did this
because i have had problems using linux gethostname()/getdomainname() the
linux functions don't always give correct results.. perhaps it's in the
way people configure their systems.  It can be forced to use "anonymous"
as the username if started as "ftp -A <host>".

This FTP defaults to binary transfer mode.

you can change the auto anonymous mode within the program with the
"anonymous" toggle.. to toggle "anonymous"/"ftp" usernames use the
"realanon" toggle..

the progress meter can be controled with the "tick" command as was in
ftp-rl-with-ticks.tar.z .. but you can control the update rate with the
"tickrate <bytes>" command setting the update rate to every <bytes> bytes
this also works for hashing with the "hash" command.

This FTP requires both the readline library and ncurses.  It might work
with standard curses, i don't know.. everyone should use ncurses anyway.

Included is the ftp.1 manpage that came with ftp-rl-with-ticks.tar.z
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Gerald Britton
gbritton@whitman.gmu.edu
