On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:02:36PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Wednesday 18 April 2007 17:51, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 04/18/07 16:29, Randy Patterson wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > I have installed a couple of the programs and tried Konqueror. But I need > > > a little more than drag and drop functionality. With the 3dftp program I > > > used in Windoze you could sync a local directory with a remote site based > > > upon criteria such as file size and date. You could also setup include > > > and exclude filters as well on both files and directories. There was a > > > little learning curve but once you had a site configured you could work > > > all day on a site locally and at the end of the day just connect to the > > > remote site, choose the sync direction and your que list was filled. I am > > > looking for an FTP client on Debian with similar functionality and hoping > > > to narrow down the number of programs to look at. > > > > Ah, so what you *really* want is a website synching app, correct? > > Well, yes, more or less. I have always used FTP in the past but now that you > have sort of raise the subject I don't guess I have a requirement for a > certain protocol so it wouldn't have to be an FTP client! :-) A good FTP > client makes for a good general purpose tool for doing a number of different > jobs, website synching would be one of them. I would be open to suggestions > for an alternative! I think you can teach an old dog new tricks! :-) I have > already downloaded some of the suggested FTP clients for a test run. > > Thanks, > Randy
lftp using the "mirror" command is a good synching application; mirror alone mirrors the website to your local computer and mirror -R mirrors your local site (Everything in `pwd`) to the FTP working directory. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
