"Best" FTP client

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I currently use FTP Explorer which is ok, but a bit old. I was wondering
which FTP client (free naturally) is considered the 'best' these days.

Thanks.
 
Most advanced seems to be SmartFTP, supports CHMOD which is a pretty hard to
find feature
 
I currently use FTP Explorer which is ok, but a bit old. I was wondering
which FTP client (free naturally) is considered the 'best' these days.

Thanks.
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Filezilla rocks.
 
Fran said:
Most advanced seems to be SmartFTP, supports CHMOD which is a pretty hard to
find feature
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Actually, if this is the only reason you are looking for an ftp
client, the command line ftp program that comes with Windows 2000 (and
I presume other versions of windows) allows you to do this by issuing
an ftp subcommand such as:

quote site chmod 755 myfile.txt
 
Colonel Blip said:
I currently use FTP Explorer which is ok, but a bit old. I was wondering
which FTP client (free naturally) is considered the 'best' these days.

Thanks.

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Well, guess I'm different I use WS_FTP, the free version for personal users.
There is a pay version which I d/l and started using before I realized the
difference. It's a bit difficult to switch directories, though. Who knows,
maybe I'll upgrade one of these days. ;)
 
Sweet Andy Licious said:
Well, guess I'm different I use WS_FTP, the free version for personal users.
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I do, too; I began using the 16-bit version in win31 years ago and
haven't seen any need to change since moving "up" to 32-bit.
 
I currently use FTP Explorer which is ok, but a bit old. I was wondering
which FTP client (free naturally) is considered the 'best' these days.

Thanks.
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If you want to go a different route, check out NcFTP. It's a command line
only FTP client, but it has many more features than either FileZilla or
SmartFTP.

http://www.ncftpd.com/download/
 
Dekaritae said:
If you want to go a different route, check out NcFTP. It's a command
line only FTP client, but it has many more features than either
FileZilla or SmartFTP.

http://www.ncftpd.com/download/
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seconded... great client if u are not afraid of a non-GUI client. It does
not support keeping alive the connection though (which FileZilla does)
Sanjay
 
Blinky the Shark said...
I used LeechFTP.
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LeechFTP URL - http://tinyurl.com/43cf . Works like a charm on my Win98se
box, is fast and lightweight, *definitely* supports CHMOD and some remote
file editing. SmartFTP was bloated and sluggish on my archaic system and I
didn't care for the ws_ftp user interface.
 
Bill said:
Blinky the Shark said...
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LeechFTP URL - http://tinyurl.com/43cf . Works like a charm on my Win98se
box, is fast and lightweight, *definitely* supports CHMOD and some remote
file editing. SmartFTP was bloated and sluggish on my archaic system and I
didn't care for the ws_ftp user interface.
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Before I settled on LeechFTP, I tried two others...SmartFTP
and...uh...<brain fart>...damn, what was that other one?

It'll come to me in the shower, tomorrow. :)
 
Before I settled on LeechFTP, I tried two others...SmartFTP
and...uh...<brain fart>...damn, what was that other one?

It'll come to me in the shower, tomorrow. :)
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Don't forget that SmartFTP is now nagware.
 
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