A Useful-Thing...selected by Dennis Cummins. This week's Useful-Thing is a free FTP client called "SmartFTP". SmartFTP is nearly as feature rich as the some of the better known shareware FTP clients and in fact out performs many shareware ftp clients. I'll list some of the features here: ~~ Windows / Internet Explorer like user interface Drag & Drop within internal windows and from Explorer Multi Connections (remote and local) FXP support Transfer Queue - Scheduling - Uploads/Downloads/FXP - Up to 16 simultaneous threads - Ultra-Fast-Queue-Directory-Contents-Speed-Feature FTPSearch / FileZ.com Interface Favorites as used in IE Global History Recursive Downloads / Uploads / Deletes Resume for broken Transfers (ul/dl/fxp) Background Transfers Proxy / Firewall support SOCKS5, SOCKS4, SOCKS4A (MS Proxy) Wingate, Winproxy, CSM Passive Transfer Mode (PASV) Bands Local Folder Browser, Transfer Queue FTP URL (ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port/path ) support URL Watcher Cache Remote Directories ASCII and Skip File Extension List Commandline for manually entering direct commands View Web Pages (OLE2) directly within SmartFTP Active Log Control (URL's are usable) and Logging to File Quick / Recent Folders Custom Toolbars Custom Commands Optimized TYPE commands Network Neighborhood support CHMOD (Properties) and much more ... ~~ The author gives it's users a great deal of support with website bulletin board discussion groups and an announcements newsletter. Plus he provides you a web page to report bugs. There is a terrific help page as well at the site with guides, faqs, and more. He really gives a lot of service for a freeware product. Dennis comments, "I really like this FTP client. In fact I would run it all the time if I did not have another client registered. Some folks like to run two clients. This would make a very good second client." I installed the program and I agree wholeheartedly with Dennis. If you are looking for a quality ftp client, then you really should consider SmartFTP. And if you are like me, who collect them like candy, this would be a fine addition to your ftp repertoire of programs. :-) Okay, here are the particulars: Author or company: SmartFTP URL of the author's Main Web site: http://www.smartftp.com/ URL to the download page: http://www.smartftp.com/download.html Note: In downloading the file you are given a choice of either first downloading a small (54 KB) downloader-setup program which will check your system for requirements and then it will complete the downloading of all necessary files. Or you can opt for the 5 MB complete installation file if you are sure your system has all the right requirements. (see below) Requirements to install and run the program: * Windows 98, Windows Millenium, WinNT4.0 or Win2k Members with the above mentioned OS's should have no problems installing SmartFTP. ~~~~ * Members with Windows 95 or NT 3.x need to first check for these requirements: ~ Win95 or NT3x with IE 4+ installed ~ commctl32.dll version >= 4.72 ~ shlwapi.dll version >= 4.72 ~ winInet.dll version >= 4.72 ~ Winsock 2.x (32-bit TCP/IP stack) ~ It requires some recent libraries like shlwapi.dll, comctl32.DLL, comdlg32.DLL. "The fact that we cannot guarantee a safe installation is due to these dependencies and also that it would require to provide an installer for each language." (author's notes) ~~~ We recommend that anyone with Windows-95 first download the downloader program which I mentioned above, that will check their system for necessary files. Enjoy! :-) Alan S. Harrell for himself and Dennis Cummins [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ashlists.org/useful-things
