Tomas Hajny via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am Di., 18. Mai 2021, 11:44:
> On 2021-05-18 10:38, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: > > On Tue, 18 May 2021, Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal wrote: > > > >> > >> On 17/05/2021 3:13 pm, Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal wrote: > >>> I'd actually keep > >>> FTP enabled, as it doesn't hurt anything and it's still a thing for > >>> retro > >>> downloads. > >> > >> Not just "retro" but a more efficient and faster protocol for file > >> downloads. > >> Unfortunately the whole world is going HTTP crazy and thinks > >> everything should > >> go over it, including the kitchen sink. > > > > I'm old enough to remember the time when I used the NCSA and netscape > > browsers > > with the Gopher protocol. Apparently it still exists, on about 300 > > sites :-) > > I'm old enough to remember that standalone Gopher clients existed well > before NCSA Mosaic. ;-) Fortunately, there's plenty of standalone FTP > clients including those with GUI add-ons, we can point out this fact in > our release communication as well. Out of those mentioned on the > respective Wikipedia page > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_FTP_client_software), > WinSCP (MS Windows), gFTP (Linux) and Cyberduck (OSX and MS Windows) > might be worth mentioning (to cover the major platforms); possibly also > FAR Manager with its FTP plugin (MS Windows, Linux, *BSD, OSX) to extend > the coverage to *BSD as well (although that's rather TUI than GUI). > I don't think we need to mention any specific clients (and why did your list not include Filezilla? :P ) Regards, Sven >
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