I'd love to know the same thing; some of us just want a simple, accessible, 
client to upload/download material, and that's it.  That's all I'm looking for, 
and the obvious, being able to view the status of what's being transfered and 
what's on the server itself, and I don't see why anybody needs to pay someone 
for that, but ok.
On Sep 23, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com> wrote:

> Well, I was curious, so I looked at the landscape.
> 
> Anyone know anything about CyberDuck, Transmit, ExpanDrive or Forklift?  Of 
> these, Forklift appears to push all the buttons (and solve all the problems, 
> and support all the providers).
> 
> Why does so much necessary Mac software have to be paid? *Sigh*
> 
> And, yes, the FTP file system in OS X supports read-only access to FTP 
> servers.  You can use the ftp client at the command line, and you can handle 
> multiple files using mget and mput, but not recursive file copying.  To be 
> honest though, FTP really isn't an ideal protocol for general-purpose use, 
> because it has no command pipelining (it's accessible as a protocol 
> extension, but that has to be supported at both ends).  As also observed it's 
> not very NAT-friendly, neither.
> 
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