In article 20041219074925.GL15006@server.onjapan.net, Jim Tittsler jwt@OnJapan.net wrote:
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:13:08AM -0800, Chris Schwan wrote:
Yeah fugu is the bomb. Trouble is, I have a couple people who still use standard ftp. Does Fugu do straight FTP?
Not yet, but it is planned for a future version. http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/roadmap.html
But seriously, encourage people to move to the current century and use SFTP. :-)
I regretfully disagree. sftp does not support a text mode, making life miserable if you are going between platforms. Actually, the modern sftp standard *does* include a text mode, but few sftp clients and servers support it. Very annoying for what should be the obvious replacement for ftp.
Personally, I use ftp over an ssh tunnel. At worst, it takes a quick command in terminal to set up the tunnel, then use any ftp client. And some ftp clients will set up the tunnel for you.
-- Russell