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post #1 of 20
9/1/03 at 7:00pm
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and FREE?

Simple topic, whadda the rascals of AI have to say?
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post #2 of 20
9/1/03 at 7:58pm
The Finder

Seriously, I really LOVED NetFinder back in OS 8 days. They do have an OS X version, but I haven't used it enough to know if it's stable and reliable. I do know that it still has some hangovers from OS 9, tho.
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post #3 of 20
9/2/03 at 12:09am
Finder? it's read only and crashes OS X hard half the time.

Transmit. Don't use anything else. At all. Ever.
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post #4 of 20
9/2/03 at 9:51am
Transmit (http://panic.com/)

It's shareware, but the messages that pop up reminding you to register are hilarious.
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post #5 of 20
9/2/03 at 10:49am
yes transmit - has sftp support that is very fast. i asked them to add webdav support and they said maybe... pretty cheap too. if you cant afford 17 bucks then you have other problems. i tried all the free ones and they suck - command line client is okay but not if you have a bunch of directories.

ps. netfinder is a good idea but just doesn't work very well (seems to hang a lot)
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post #6 of 20
9/2/03 at 11:11am
Panther will at least bring a decent interface and support for FTP-downloads. Uploads is another matter...

I too use Transmit in Jaguar, at least
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post #7 of 20
9/2/03 at 12:53pm
Fugu

http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/
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post #8 of 20
9/2/03 at 1:19pm
I really like Fetch. It is free for students and Education/Charitable organizations, and only $25 for the rest of us.
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post #9 of 20
9/2/03 at 1:36pm
the one, the only: ftp. (for cli junkies only) its got everything u need, and then some stuff the protocol has but no one ever uses. plus it makes julian fries!
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post #10 of 20
9/2/03 at 7:09pm
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Fetch is free if you are a student.

Many people argue with me about this little app. But it works for me.
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post #11 of 20
9/2/03 at 7:37pm
I use Transmit. It's not free, but it works really well. As others have said, you can get Fetch free if you're in ed (as I believe you are, Matsu).

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post #12 of 20
9/2/03 at 7:57pm
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Originally posted by Ringo
Transmit (http://panic.com/)

It's shareware, but the messages that pop up reminding you to register are hilarious.

Transmit is the way to go. It beats the hell out of free FTP clients. And at least for a while, it's free too.

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post #13 of 20
9/2/03 at 10:32pm
HAHA Fetch. Yea nostalgia is great but that hasn't changed since System 7.
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post #14 of 20
9/3/03 at 6:51am
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Transmit is the way to go. It beats the hell out of free FTP clients. And at least for a while, it's free too.

for 10 minutes. then it drops your connection.

fugu will be excellent once it gets anonymous FTP. The RBrowser lite at http://rbrowser.com/.
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post #15 of 20
9/3/03 at 7:09am
I'd get Transmit, the timeout was annoying, but I liked a lot so just bought it, been happy ever since.
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post #16 of 20
9/3/03 at 9:06am
still using vpc to handle all ftp jobs, no one can beat FlashFXP on windows.

very bad indeed there is no good ftp client for mac users.
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post #17 of 20
9/3/03 at 11:53am
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very bad indeed there is no good ftp client for mac users.

Uh... what? Did you read the thread? How many were listed?
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post #18 of 20
9/3/03 at 7:32pm
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Originally posted by Ringo
Uh... what? Did you read the thread? How many were listed?

all above mentioned can not meet my standard

1.can not support FXP mode
2.can not support asian fold name, also the file


the two major problems convinced me to be back to vpc, back to the FlashFXP.
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post #19 of 20
9/3/03 at 11:47pm
I have never heard of FXP, and after searching a bit I'm still not quite sure what it is. If it's that obscure, I wouldn't go so far as to label clients that don't support it as bad. As for Asian (and other UTF-16) fonts, I'm fairly certain Transmit and a few others have that covered.
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post #20 of 20
9/4/03 at 5:13am
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Originally posted by Ringo
I have never heard of FXP, and after searching a bit I'm still not quite sure what it is. If it's that obscure, I wouldn't go so far as to label clients that don't support it as bad. As for Asian (and other UTF-16) fonts, I'm fairly certain Transmit and a few others have that covered.

Fxp mode is a serve to serve transfering mode, and your machine acts the role of remote control, if you are close to an underground sharing world, you would understand how important it is.

Asian fonts at my side are not compatible at all, all the folders and files are freaky unknown, so any ideas on how to configure transmit to make it displaying properly ? waiting for the answers, thx
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