Back from the dead

Hope you are getting better John - welcome back. As to "xp" - the prognosis is terminal!

Regards

Mungo :-)

Good heavens.

The Lord be praised indeed !

I'm sorry to hear that you've been ill, John, and very pleased to hear that you are back.

We need to do another NG meet in London....

Regarding XP, you can open a CMD box from the Run.. selection on the menu and then use command line FTP which is subfunctionally derived from Unix.

I tend to use the SecureFX and SecureCRT products from VanDyke which do SSH stuff as well and work effectively on XP.

I don't.

You make sound like fun.

I find it a lot easier to use IE and just drag and drop the files I want to upload.

MBQ

Your absence was very much noticed, and your contribution to the group was missed. Sorry to hear of your illness, and glad that you're back.

As for FTP - while you can still use windows explorer to FTP in XP, it's really not very good at it. I'd recommend installing an FTP client. Filezilla is a pretty simple, easy and free FTP client. You can download it here:

Good luck, and all the best.

Yuk.

I've never found browsers to be a satisfactory way of doing FTP. There is no reasonable progress indicator, no resume of aborted downloads and most of the functions such as passice are absent. Plus, with IE, it's noticably slower than with a standalone client.

It can be likened to using OE for usenet - another example of Microsoft's inability to write software.

I must commend you on your use for the phrase "subfunctionally derived"

- I will endeavour to use it myself if I ever find it fits the context.

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:14:51 +0100,it is alleged that Andy Hall spake thusly in uk.d-i-y:

Kind of comparing a cheap penknife to a chainsaw :)

IE is designed[1] to be many things, a proper ftp client is .. a proper ftp client.

Totally agreed re: using browsers is a generally sub-optimal method of ftp, even for pure downloading only.

And John, though I don't know you, welcome back and glad things were non-terminal:-) Although as has been noted, XP may change all that

Grunff wrote in news:42c4061a$0$23642$ snipped-for-privacy@news.zen.co.uk:

I've got to admit I didn't notice, but more in the line of "Jon Schmitt back? - didn't know he'd been away" which seems the tone for more and more of my life these days.

Day before yesterday, it was 1972.

So I'm glad you mentioned it, and are back again

mike

I'll second all of that, or N'th it perhaps by now. And it's good to have our resident group chemist back...

As to FTP clients, for some years now I've used Terrapin which I commend to the house:

The problem is security, not the fact that MS have done what Thunderbird does, but years before - combine an email and newsreader into one program with a common GUI...

Hi John, and welcome back. Glad your news is good. I often wonder when well known names stop posting what the reason is. Sometimes one just fears the worst.

Indeed; how have we managed so many caustic soda threads in the absence of the resident group chemist.

Owain

XP has a proper command-line FTP client - just type FTP at a command prompt and away you go. As for graphical FTP clients, I've been using using Core FTP Lite and it seems okay. WS_FTP LE is also good.

You make sound like fun, now let me think about that.

Does that mean that you are saying that he makes sound like you think it is fun?

You write absolute crap.

Dave

Pah, you must think I was born yesterday.

..this man, this man, he cannot read ..it's clear he has no clue ..he thinks that all the swirls and things are drawings that you do ..

I wondered where you were, now I'll have to ask all those rock questions I've stored up.

Glad to see you're better and posting.

Andrew Heggie