Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Dear all > > I am used to lftp, a very powerful commandline ftp software. I wish to > introduce my colleague a ftp software that can help her maintain the > website she's working on. She recently finished the move from Windows to > OpenSuSE and feel happy about gftp. > > yet gftp is not powerful enough for her, what she want is an ftp > software that can upload a folder of 200 files and: > I. if local file is newer than remote file (mdate), the file is > changed locally and the file on the server should be > overwritten; > II. if local file is older than file on server or they have the same > date, that file probably should be skipped. > > Having graphical user interface is important because if I start by > suggesting commandline I have too much to explain to her, including > concepts like current-working-directory, single dot and double dot. She > is the kind of person think graphically, she knows it when she see it > (e.g. she know it's a folder because it's a folder on screen) I do tried > to introduce her commandline and failed more than once. > > gftp isn't good enough because as the version come with SuSE 10.2 it > doesn't know to compare local file and remote file. I tried to compile a > developing version which do implemented some logic on comparing which > file should be uploaded, and it also have prolems: > I. if local file is newer and longer than remote file, the ftp > client suggest resume upload, which is almost 100% incorrect > thing to do for her; > II. some file changed locally is simply missing in list of files to > upload; > III. it should highlight the file that it wishes to upload from a > list of 200 files; > IV. when she finally examed the long list of 200 files, change > "resume" to "overwrite" etc, and click yes, the control > connection already timed out; > > I also tried j-ftp, which simply don't know to do the compare logic > (e.g. it runs mkdir when the directory on ftp server already exist, > causing error). > > Also it's very useful for her that the ftp software can do character-set > conversion on-the-fly, which is a good feature existing in gftp. > > Can you suggest something I can try? Or at least let me know a good > solution is simply missing. > > Thanks a lot in advance! > > >
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