Re: Good FTP program?

From: filesiteguy (abuse_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 08:15:12 -0700

Zurab Davitiani scratched out in the sand

> filesiteguy wrote:
>
>> LOL - that's what I did last night. I was doing updates to my local
>> and hosted version of gamephreakz. KBear has a bug where i can't
>> overwrite a local file without crashing, and Konquerer can't seem to
>> write or do anything but browse on remote systems.
>
> I have encountered that bug with KBear as well up to as recently as KDE
> 3.2. It appears that this has been fixed with KDE 3.3 (KBear 2.1). I also

Okay, intalled 2.1.44 with 3.3 - that does seem to wrok better. I notice the
system tray thingy, though. Wierd. Also wierd, is that my menu strucure
has changed.

> What you say is not true about Konqueror. I have used Konqueror for
> uploading and downloading files over FTP and it handles it pretty well.
> One nice thing you can do with Konqueror is set up a separate FTP profile,
> configure your panels, tools, views, etc. exactly the way you want it and
> save those preferences in that profile. For example, you may want to have
> 4 panels open: one for home directory, another for your local
> upload/download directory, other two empty for remote FTP connections.
> Also save FTP URLs in your bookmarks - make sure you are logging in with
> username and password to avoid anonymous authentication. Then every time
> you want to use FTP, launch Konqueror with your customized FTP profile
> (you can set this up as a separate desktop icon or a shortcut virtually
> anywhere), connect to remote servers from bookmarks and start swapping
> files away with Konqueror drag and drop interface.
>

Ahh, maybe I'll try this out. I looked at the documentation (shock of all
shocks) but didn't find anything when searching for FTP. I'll look online. 

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kai
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