1223328SgavinWHAT IS TNFTP? 2223328Sgavin-------------- 379971Sobrien 4223328Sgavin`tnftp' is a `port' of the NetBSD FTP client to other systems. 5223328SgavinSee http://www.NetBSD.org/ for more details about NetBSD. 679971Sobrien 7223328Sgavintnftp was formerly known as `lukemftp' 8223328SgavinIt was renamed to `tnftp' by Luke Mewburn in February 2003. 979971Sobrien 1079971SobrienThe enhancements over the standard ftp client in 4.4BSD (and 1179971Sobrienderivatives) include: 1279971Sobrien * command-line editing within ftp 1379971Sobrien * command-line fetching of URLS, including support for: 14223328Sgavin - http proxies (see $http_proxy, $ftp_proxy) 1579971Sobrien - authentication 1679971Sobrien * configurable prompt 1779971Sobrien * context sensitive command and filename completion 1879971Sobrien * dynamic progress bar 1979971Sobrien * feature negotiation extensions from RFC 2389 20223328Sgavin (see `feat' and `remopts') 2179971Sobrien * extensions to ftp from the IETF ftpext working group 22223328Sgavin (see `mlsd' and `mlst') 2379971Sobrien * IPv6 support (from the WIDE project) 2479971Sobrien * modification time preservation 2579971Sobrien * paging of local and remote files, and of directory listings 26223328Sgavin (see `lpage', `page', `pdir') 2779971Sobrien * passive mode support, with fallback to active mode 28223328Sgavin * retrieval of filenames listed in a given file (see `fget') 2979971Sobrien * `set option' override of ftp environment variables 30223328Sgavin * TIS Firewall Toolkit gate ftp proxy support (see `gate') 31223328Sgavin * transfer-rate throttling (see `-T', `rate') 32223328Sgavin * uploading of files on the command line (see `-u') 33223328Sgavin * (Dante) SOCKS5 support 3479971Sobrien 35223328SgavinPrevious features, currently disabled until a test system is available: 36223328Sgavin * SOCKS4 support 3779971Sobrien 38223328Sgavin 3979971SobrienINSTALLATION 4079971Sobrien------------ 4179971Sobrien 42223328SgavinRefer to `INSTALL' for more information on how to compile and install tnftp. 4379971Sobrien 4479971Sobrien 4579971SobrienFEEDBACK / BUG REPORTS 4679971Sobrien---------------------- 4779971Sobrien 48223328SgavinPlease email feedback back to the maintainer: 49223328Sgavin Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>. 5079971Sobrien 5179971Sobrien 5279971SobrienCOPYRIGHT 5379971Sobrien--------- 5479971Sobrien 55223328Sgavintnftp is covered by a BSD-style copyright notice. 56223328SgavinPlease refer to the file `COPYING' for more information. 5779971Sobrien 5879971Sobrien 5979971SobrienAVAILABILITY 6079971Sobrien------------ 6179971Sobrien 62223328SgavinThe primary ftp site for tnftp is: 63223328Sgavin ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tnftp/ 64223328Sgavin 65223328Sgavin 66223328SgavinDOCUMENT REFERENCE 67223328Sgavin------------------ 68223328Sgavin$NetBSD: README,v 1.10 2007/08/06 01:58:57 lukem Exp $ 69