Subj : The FUTURE
To   : Time Warrior
From : Sam Alexander
Date : Thu Sep 22 2005 09:55 am

  Re: The FUTURE
  By: Time Warrior to Deuce on Thu Sep 22 2005 09:02 am

 > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
 > 
 >   To: Deuce
 >   Re: The FUTURE
 >   By: Deuce to Time Warrior on Wed Sep 21 2005 07:45 pm
 > 
 >  > To: Time Warrior
 >  > Re: The FUTURE By: Time Warrior to Deuce on Wed Sep 21 2005 12:05:00
 > 
 >  >  > Then you must enjoy clicking for all etermity and you must also enjoy 
 >  >  > down your bandwidth to grab them all at once. I am talking about a que
 >  >  > manually clicking 50 files for a simultaneous download. With an FTP cl
 >  >  > can select and entire directory and it would pull every file in it wit
 >  >  > having to CLICK every file in it.
 > 
 >  > IE allows this for FTP also.
 > 
 > Does any other browser? IE is the spyware gateway to hell. I didn't know IE
 > allowed you to download an entire FTP directory at once. Either way, IE and
 > other browsers would shoe the internal code and doesn't support file_id.diz
 > like the Synchronet Interface does.
 > 
 > Either way, this discussion has become redundant. My feature request isn't u
 > to either of us. DM is the Synchronet Author. If he agrees with my
 > suggestion, it'll be implimented. If he doesn't, it won't. It's pretty much
 > as simple as that.

My personal opinion is that IE sucks hard!  I use Firefox for WWW but 
Filezilla is by far my fave FTP app on Windows and Transmit on OSX.  
Filezilla is opensource, supports SFTP, and works GREAT!  Transmit on OSX is 
shareware, but it's not much to register.  

FWIW,

Sam

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