4 `tnftp' is a `port' of the NetBSD FTP client to other systems.
5 See http://www.NetBSD.org/ for more details about NetBSD.
7 tnftp was formerly known as `lukemftp'
8 It was renamed to `tnftp' by Luke Mewburn in February 2003.
10 The enhancements over the standard ftp client in 4.4BSD (and
12 * command-line editing within ftp
13 * command-line fetching of URLS, including support for:
14 - http proxies (see $http_proxy, $ftp_proxy)
17 * context sensitive command and filename completion
18 * dynamic progress bar
19 * feature negotiation extensions from RFC 2389
20 (see `feat' and `remopts')
21 * extensions to ftp from the IETF ftpext working group
22 (see `mlsd' and `mlst')
23 * IPv6 support (from the WIDE project)
24 * modification time preservation
25 * paging of local and remote files, and of directory listings
26 (see `lpage', `page', `pdir')
27 * passive mode support, with fallback to active mode
28 * retrieval of filenames listed in a given file (see `fget')
29 * `set option' override of ftp environment variables
30 * TIS Firewall Toolkit gate ftp proxy support (see `gate')
31 * transfer-rate throttling (see `-T', `rate')
32 * uploading of files on the command line (see `-u')
33 * (Dante) SOCKS5 support
35 Previous features, currently disabled until a test system is available:
42 Refer to `INSTALL' for more information on how to compile and install tnftp.
45 FEEDBACK / BUG REPORTS
46 ----------------------
48 Please email feedback back to the maintainer:
49 Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>.
55 tnftp is covered by a BSD-style copyright notice.
56 Please refer to the file `COPYING' for more information.
62 The primary ftp site for tnftp is:
63 ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tnftp/
68 $NetBSD: README,v 1.10 2007/08/06 01:58:57 lukem Exp $