This is announcement of a new major version of LFTP.
News since last version (2.4.10a):
* mirror understands URLs now. It can mirror between two ftp sites, for
example: `mirror ftp://site1/path1 ftp://site2/path2'. It will use FXP
if possible.
* mirror can now upload/download certain files first based on pattern list,
new setting mirror:order contains the pattern list.
* mirror has now options -X and -I which allow to specify exclude and include
as shell glob patterns. E.g. `mirror -X *.bak'.
* mirror can now set file owner/group if it can (--allow-chown option).
* mirror options -t, -T, --time-prec and --loose-time-prec are now obsolete,
so are settings mirror:time-prec and mirror:loose-time-prec.
* find can now understand URLs and plain files specified on command line
(Glenn Maynard, Alexander Lukyanov)
* chmod can now handle symbolic modes and can work recursively (Glenn Maynard).
* now plain ls can also use color for file names.
* new setting xfer:full-disk-fatal. When it is false, lftp waits for more disk
space instead of cancelling transfers in case of full disk (Glenn Maynard,
Alexander Lukyanov).
* cls improved (Glenn Maynard).
* `bookmark list' hides passwords now.
LSM entry:
Begin3
Title: LFTP command line file transfer program
Version: 2.5.0a
Entered-date: 2002-03-12
Description: LFTP is a shell-like command line ftp client. It is
reliable: can retry operations and does reget automatically.
It can do several transfers simultaneously in background.
You can start a transfer in background and continue browsing
the ftp site or another one. This all is done in one process.
Background jobs will be completed in nohup mode if you exit
or close modem connection. Lftp has reput, mirror, reverse
mirror among its features. Since version 2.0 it also supports
http protocol. Other features include: ipv6 support, context
sensitive completion, output redirection to files or to pipe,
SOCKS support (configure option), ftp and http proxy support,
transfer rate throttling for each connection and for all
connections in sum, job queueing, job execution at specified
time, opie/skey support in ftp protocol, ssl for http and ftp,
fxp transfers.
Keywords: ftp client, readline, reliable, background, parallel, http
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander V. Lukyanov)
Maintained-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander V. Lukyanov)
Primary-site: ftp.yars.free.net /pub/software/unix/net/ftp/client/lftp
1464 kB lftp-2.5.0a.tar.gz
Alternate-site: metalab.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/network/file-transfer
Platforms: Unix, G++
Copying-policy: GNU GPL
End
LFTP has a web page at http://lftp.yar.ru/
--
Alexander.
