On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Phil Burton wrote:
>I prefer doing my ftp on a command line. And this is
>why. I tried Igloo FTP once and tried uploading a jpg
>graphic to my wife's website. The website HTML is written
>to use ".jpg" in lower-case letters. Whenever I try to use
>a graphical ftp client, it insists on changing .jpg to
>.JPG. Even after going back and deleting, re-uploading,
>re-naming, it kept up the insistence. So much for graphical
>ftp in my estimation. Command line ftp works just fine and
>does what you specify. My two pesos.
And you can prepare nice update scripts too :)
Saves a lot of waiting time:
script would look like this:
open ftp.something.com
user <name> <pass>
put index.html
put picture.jpg
dele directory/image.gif
close
bye
Name this e.g. update.ftp
and then run
ftp -ivn < update.ftp
Really works fine for me.
Paul
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