> Hello,
> I'm looking for a good X-Window ftp client.
> I tried some good clients like gftp, igloo-ftp but i experienced too many
> troubles and i need another one. Sometimes these clients crashed, sometimes
> i couldn't log on some servers, sometimes my transferts repeatedly stopped
> at a constant size, and i got a lot of little problems that made me lose a
> lot of time. The only client that always perfectly worked is the good old
> "ftp" in text mode. But of course this client lacks some features like
> queues, etc.
> Do you know a client that has reliability and ergonomy ?
> Another way is to build a graphic front end for the text ftp client.
> I made some test programs and i think it could be a great solution,
> reliable and not too difficult to realise. I'm ready to do it if it has not
> be done by someone else.
> What do you think of this ?
take a look at llnlxftp and llnlxdir. llnlxftp allows you to ftp between
any two hosts, neither of which need be your own.... xdir has a windoz
look and feel allowing you to drag and drop files from remote locations.
get them from http://www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/xftp.html
you will also need the motif header files and libraries, I used
openmotif[-devel]-2.1.30-1_ICS.
I had to make a minor edit to the str.h file (where both the xdir and xftp
compiles hurl with the following error):
In file included from aconnect.c:61:
str.h:62: macro `strchr' used without args
str.h:64: macro `strstr' used without args
append ' || defined(linux)' to line 57 of str.h so the compile includes
string.h
not strings.h
for xftp, I also had to edit log.c when the compile hurled with:
log.c:86: conflicting types for `sys_errlist'
/usr/include/stdio.h:557: previous declaration of `sys_errlist'
make: *** [log.o] Error 1
append ' && !defined(linux)' to line 85 to ignore the 'extern char
*sys_errlist[];'
BTW, I'm using RedHat 6.2.
my only complaint with these utilities is the default font that was used....
Randy
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