1WHAT IS TNFTP? 2-------------- 3 4`tnftp' is a `port' of the NetBSD FTP client to other systems. 5See http://www.NetBSD.org/ for more details about NetBSD. 6 7tnftp was formerly known as `lukemftp' 8It was renamed to `tnftp' by Luke Mewburn in February 2003. 9 10The enhancements over the standard ftp client in 4.4BSD (and 11derivatives) include: 12 * command-line editing within ftp 13 * command-line fetching of URLS, including support for: 14 - http proxies (see $http_proxy, $ftp_proxy) 15 - authentication 16 * configurable prompt 17 * context sensitive command and filename completion 18 * dynamic progress bar 19 * feature negotiation extensions from RFC 2389 20 (see `feat' and `remopts') 21 * extensions to ftp from the IETF ftpext working group 22 (see `mlsd' and `mlst') 23 * IPv6 support (from the WIDE project) 24 * modification time preservation 25 * paging of local and remote files, and of directory listings 26 (see `lpage', `page', `pdir') 27 * passive mode support, with fallback to active mode 28 * retrieval of filenames listed in a given file (see `fget') 29 * `set option' override of ftp environment variables 30 * TIS Firewall Toolkit gate ftp proxy support (see `gate') 31 * transfer-rate throttling (see `-T', `rate') 32 * uploading of files on the command line (see `-u') 33 * (Dante) SOCKS5 support 34 35Previous features, currently disabled until a test system is available: 36 * SOCKS4 support 37 38 39INSTALLATION 40------------ 41 42Refer to `INSTALL' for more information on how to compile and install tnftp. 43 44 45FEEDBACK / BUG REPORTS 46---------------------- 47 48Please email feedback back to the maintainer: 49 Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>. 50 51 52COPYRIGHT 53--------- 54 55tnftp is covered by a BSD-style copyright notice. 56Please refer to the file `COPYING' for more information. 57 58 59AVAILABILITY 60------------ 61 62The primary ftp site for tnftp is: 63 ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tnftp/ 64 65 66DOCUMENT REFERENCE 67------------------ 68$NetBSD: README,v 1.10 2007/08/06 01:58:57 lukem Exp $ 69