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From: draphsor@elaine39.Stanford.EDU (Matt Rollefson)
Subject: Re: FTP for MacTCP?
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Date: 10 Jun 91 06:29:28 GMT
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ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric Sheppard) writes:

>I asked a while ago about this, but only got a few confused replies.
>I have a stock Mac II machine with Ethertalk card, and MacTCP 1.0.1.
>I am currently using NCSA Telnet 2.2-TCP for communications, but there
>_still_ is no FTP.  By FTP, I mean I want to initiate an FTP session
>from the Mac to a remote host for file transfer.  I do *not* want to
>telnet to that host and start a reverse-FTP session like with the non-TCP
>Telnet and 2.3 Telnet.  Telnet and FTP exist as two different programs for
>the MSDOS machines, doesn't it exist for the Macintosh?  Where?

Check out xferit, archived at sumex-aim as /info-mac/comm/xferit.hqx. A
nice implementation. There is also a hypercard based one archived as
/info-mac/comm/hyperftp-13.hqx; you probably don't want to deal with the
overhead of running a slow program that takes up a meg of RAM, though.
Also, if you can get your hands on Mac/IP from Stanford (it's largely
free to educational sites, I believe, although I'm not the one to talk
to about that - I'm just a lowly undergrad), it also has an ftp function
- although it's nowhere near as fast as xferit. Enjoy!

>Eric Sheppard      Georgia Tech    |   "Of course the US Constitution isn't
>Atlanta, GA                        | perfect; but it's a lot better than what
>ARPA: ce1zzes@prism.gatech.edu     |             we have now." -Unknown
>uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!ce1zzes

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