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1WHAT IS TNFTP?
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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, $ftp_proxy)
15	    - authentication
16	* configurable prompt
17	* context sensitive command and filename completion
18	* dynamic progress bar
19	* feature negotiation extensions from RFC 2389
20	  (see `feat' and `remopts')
21	* extensions to ftp from the IETF ftpext working group
22	  (see `mlsd' and `mlst')
23	* IPv6 support (from the WIDE project)
24	* modification time preservation
25	* paging of local and remote files, and of directory listings
26	  (see `lpage', `page', `pdir')
27	* passive mode support, with fallback to active mode
28	* retrieval of filenames listed in a given file (see `fget')
29	* `set option' override of ftp environment variables
30	* TIS Firewall Toolkit gate ftp proxy support (see `gate')
31	* transfer-rate throttling (see `-T', `rate')
32	* uploading of files on the command line (see `-u')
33	* (Dante) SOCKS5 support
34
35Previous features, currently disabled until a test system is available:
36	* SOCKS4 support
37
38
39INSTALLATION
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41
42Refer to `INSTALL' for more information on how to compile and install tnftp.
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44
45FEEDBACK / BUG REPORTS
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47
48Please email feedback back to the maintainer:
49	Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>.
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51
52COPYRIGHT
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54
55tnftp is covered by a BSD-style copyright notice.
56Please refer to the file `COPYING' for more information.
57
58
59AVAILABILITY
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61
62The primary ftp site for tnftp is:
63	ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tnftp/
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66DOCUMENT REFERENCE
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68$NetBSD: README,v 1.10 2007/08/06 01:58:57 lukem Exp $
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