When I used to use ncftp, I always used the less command to view files and never experienced the hung sessions. I use pdir to view directory listings and rarely had any trouble. If I didn't complete the listing or the pipe, I think I recall hanging briefly but usually got control back. I mainly use lftp now because of the other protocols it supports such as ssh/fish, ftps(ssl), etc. It's batch processing is pretty cool but the commands and configuration is a bit more primitive; you have to put your configs in a file to set them. Ncftp's bookmarks menu is better than what lftp does but I gues it might be good to keep both clients around:). On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 05:24:17PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote: > Slackware 8.1 has lftp, but I've never tried it. However, ncftp usually > works fine for me especially for background downloading. You can type > "bgget file" and it will spool it and you can keep it up until you've > spooled a complete list of files you want. Then, when you quit, it will > start downloading them in the background and won't give up. It is > absolutely stubborn about finishing a download. The only problem I've had > with Ncftp is that if you use its "page" command to look at a file and > then quit before reading the entire file, 9 out of 10 times, your > connection to the server hangs. I don't know why this is, but it makes > the command effectively useless. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
