Auntie Em said:
Looking for a no-install FTP proggie that will fit on a floppy with
room to spare (the more the better - room, that is.)
Alex Kauffman's FTP2, it's 300k. It uses a local ini stored in its
directory.
LeechFTP, its exe can be compressed with UPX (the same as Kauffman's
prog had been at distribution point), and that brings it down under
300k. LeechFTP stores settings in the HKCU of registry.
MemeCode's iFTP, it uses an assortment of files in its directory,
including some dlls. Total size of its directory, it's about 500k.
No registry; settings stored in local file.
Pablo's FTP Wanderer, its exe is only 165k, once UPX'd. Settings for
this one are stored in HKCU of registry.
Google should be able to give URLs, if interested in any of these.
Kauffman might be the one tricky find - ACF aid might be needed.
My experience with fpt clients is fairly shallow, so I'm not going to
promote any particular program there. What I do recommend is that you
get the UPX prog, for this kind of use, where you want small size, for
purpose of fitting on floppy.
http://upx.sourceforge.net/
It's commandline. There are available third-party graphical frontends
for it. But for casual, intermittent use, the bare commandline download
itself should serve.
You can put the upx.exe prog in your path. Then when there is an exe you
want to compress, open a console window and type:
upx someprog.exe
Or to decompress:
upx -d someprog.exe
It does an overwrite, so best to make a backup of the exe you're targeting,
especially before the decompress operation.
