1*6cdfca03SJohn MarinoWHAT IS TNFTP? 2*6cdfca03SJohn Marino-------------- 3*6cdfca03SJohn Marino 4*6cdfca03SJohn Marino`tnftp' is a `port' of the NetBSD FTP client to other systems. 5*6cdfca03SJohn MarinoSee http://www.NetBSD.org/ for more details about NetBSD. 6*6cdfca03SJohn Marino 7*6cdfca03SJohn Marinotnftp was formerly known as `lukemftp' 8*6cdfca03SJohn MarinoIt was renamed to `tnftp' by Luke Mewburn in February 2003. 9*6cdfca03SJohn Marino 10*6cdfca03SJohn MarinoThe enhancements over the standard ftp client in 4.4BSD (and 11*6cdfca03SJohn Marinoderivatives) include: 12*6cdfca03SJohn Marino * command-line editing within ftp 13*6cdfca03SJohn Marino * command-line fetching of URLS, including support for: 14*6cdfca03SJohn Marino - http proxies (see $http_proxy, $ftp_proxy) 15*6cdfca03SJohn Marino - authentication 16*6cdfca03SJohn Marino * configurable prompt 17*6cdfca03SJohn Marino * context sensitive command and filename completion 18*6cdfca03SJohn Marino * dynamic progress bar 19*6cdfca03SJohn Marino * feature negotiation extensions from RFC 2389 20*6cdfca03SJohn Marino (see `feat' and `remopts') 21*6cdfca03SJohn Marino * extensions to ftp from the IETF ftpext working group 22*6cdfca03SJohn Marino (see `mlsd' and `mlst') 23*6cdfca03SJohn Marino * IPv6 support (from the WIDE project) 24*6cdfca03SJohn Marino * modification time preservation 25*6cdfca03SJohn Marino * paging of local and remote files, and of directory listings 26*6cdfca03SJohn Marino (see `lpage', `page', `pdir') 27*6cdfca03SJohn Marino * passive mode support, with fallback to active mode 28*6cdfca03SJohn Marino * retrieval of filenames listed in a given file (see `fget') 29*6cdfca03SJohn Marino * `set option' override of ftp environment variables 30*6cdfca03SJohn Marino * TIS Firewall Toolkit gate ftp proxy support (see `gate') 31*6cdfca03SJohn Marino * transfer-rate throttling (see `-T', `rate') 32*6cdfca03SJohn Marino * uploading of files on the command line (see `-u') 33*6cdfca03SJohn Marino * (Dante) SOCKS5 support 34*6cdfca03SJohn Marino 35*6cdfca03SJohn MarinoPrevious features, currently disabled until a test system is available: 36*6cdfca03SJohn Marino * SOCKS4 support 37*6cdfca03SJohn Marino 38*6cdfca03SJohn Marino 39*6cdfca03SJohn MarinoINSTALLATION 40*6cdfca03SJohn Marino------------ 41*6cdfca03SJohn Marino 42*6cdfca03SJohn MarinoRefer to `INSTALL' for more information on how to compile and install tnftp. 43*6cdfca03SJohn Marino 44*6cdfca03SJohn Marino 45*6cdfca03SJohn MarinoFEEDBACK / BUG REPORTS 46*6cdfca03SJohn Marino---------------------- 47*6cdfca03SJohn Marino 48*6cdfca03SJohn MarinoPlease email feedback back to the maintainer: 49*6cdfca03SJohn Marino Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>. 50*6cdfca03SJohn Marino 51*6cdfca03SJohn Marino 52*6cdfca03SJohn MarinoCOPYRIGHT 53*6cdfca03SJohn Marino--------- 54*6cdfca03SJohn Marino 55*6cdfca03SJohn Marinotnftp is covered by a BSD-style copyright notice. 56*6cdfca03SJohn MarinoPlease refer to the file `COPYING' for more information. 57*6cdfca03SJohn Marino 58*6cdfca03SJohn Marino 59*6cdfca03SJohn MarinoAVAILABILITY 60*6cdfca03SJohn Marino------------ 61*6cdfca03SJohn Marino 62*6cdfca03SJohn MarinoThe primary ftp site for tnftp is: 63*6cdfca03SJohn Marino ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tnftp/ 64*6cdfca03SJohn Marino 65*6cdfca03SJohn Marino 66*6cdfca03SJohn MarinoDOCUMENT REFERENCE 67*6cdfca03SJohn Marino------------------ 68*6cdfca03SJohn Marino$NetBSD: README,v 1.10 2007/08/06 01:58:57 lukem Exp $ 69