DESCRIPTION:
Ncftp is an improved FTP client. Ncftp's improvements include support
for command line editing, command histories, recursive gets, automatic
anonymous logins and more
CYGWIN NEWS:
* build with cygwin-1.5, fixes a problem with uid>64k (Who are you?),
reported by Andrew DeFaria
* remove readline support. I cannot find Shane Wegner's patch for 3.1.7
* no need to run autoheader and autoconf without the readline patch
* updated to the newest generic build script
* patched Makefile.in to use DESTDIR
NCFTP NEWS:
3.1.7, 2004-01-07
+ Fixed a memory leak introduced in 3.1.6.
+ Fixed problem where it was assumed that daylight saving's time occurred
at the same time each year for all timezones.
+ Bug fixed with running a shell escape.
+ Ncftpget now uses passive-with-fall-back-to-port mode like ncftpput and
ncftpls.
+ Problem fixed with "ls -a" where occasionally a row with ".." and another
file would be omitted.
+ Ncftpbatch now uses the UTC timezone for spool files.
+ The configure script can now detect when the config.cache file has been
improperly recycled from a machine with a different OS.
+ The Windows version now uses the USERPROFILE environment variable, if it
was set, as the location of the user's home directory.
+ Recognize broken DG/UX servers and work around them.
3.1.6, 2003-08-25
+ Fixed an important bug that was causing socket leaks on Windows.
+ Added support for GCC 3.4 precompiled headers.
+ Aborting transfers is now more robust.
+ Re-fixed a problem where high ASCII characters at the NcFTP prompt
could cause it to exit.
+ Bug fixed where timeouts may not have worked.
+ To the improved ASCII handling from 3.1.5, added another case where we
workaround files sent by a buggy FTP server implementation whose
files have CR+CR+LF end-of-lines.
+ More fixes related to the above, as well as few other fixes from
Martin StorsjÃ.
+ Bug fixed where an upload filename could have been limited to 127
characters.
+ Firewall exception hosts are no longer case sensitive.
+ Bug fixed in ncftpput's "-c" option so it works with the "-f" option
(Thanks, ITO Tsuyoshi).
+ Ncftpbatch will now try to temporarily skip a failing host in the
current run (Thanks, Eric Engstrom).
+ Bug fixed where a several minute delay would be incurred if you
tried to transfer a file that did not exist.
+ For the malicious server problem that was addressed in 3.1.5, enhanced
the fix for better compatibility with Serv-U and WS_FTP servers.
3.1.5, 2002-10-13
+ Problem fixed where a malicious or trojaned FTP server could send back
pathnames with directories different from the directory requested.
For example, if you did:
cd /pub
get *.zip
the malicious server could
send back a pathname like ../../../some/other/dir/filename.here
rather than pathnames such as filename.zip and trick NcFTP into writing
into a different local pathname if your user privileges had permission
to write it.
For details, see the CERT Vulnerability Note, at
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/210409
+ Bug fixed where cd messages from remote server were not being displayed.
+ It's now possible to capture the output of the progress reports from
ncftpget/put by redirecting descriptor(s) to a file. Previous releases
required a "tty" to enable progress reports.
+ Compatibility fixes for AIX, Linux, Mac OS X, IRIX 6.2 and SunOS 4.
+ Be less pedantic about incorrectly formatted multi-line responses.
+ Bug fixed where NcFTP could hang at exit.
+ For ASCII transfers, try harder to handle non-native end-of-line formats.
INSTALLATION:
To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your
system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions.
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