I feel a little silly answering this, but there are a few incorrect statements here and some expansions:
1. FTP is a protocol and has been available in some form on Macintosh computers since the beginning, ftp the original protocol available since 1985 and probably earlier was not very secure, the password was transmitted in exactly as you typed it, there was no encryption available and it had several other faults. Several of those problems with the protocol were fixed in newer releases but sftp which is essentially a specialized version of ssh has long been considered a better solutions for transferring files between two systems where you don’t need much synchronization and can be used as an underlying protocol for git. What is git? It is a way to keep various versions of files around in a distributed system where one can fairly easily go back to an earlier version. And yes there are git clients and servers for the Macintosh. In terms of finder and FTP it is possible or at least it was inTiger to have the finder open a ftp session but if for any reason the TCP connections that ftp was using failed, than the finder had a tendency to hang. So Transmit and several other clients have been created with better fault tolerance (note that transmit can use ftp which is still insecure or other protocols that are better secured for privacy). Most of the commercial file transfer clients support several protocols and therefor e can make them all appear pretty much equivalent. I believe that in most cases today when people are asking about ftp they are really either thinking about sftp or are using a very limited use case, perhaps uploading a new article to a wordpress site or downloading the archives of software or documents from sites that want to ensure that the downloads that are started are supported by the most ancient of file transfer protocols. (FTP uses port 20, and SMTP the original mail sending protocol uses port 25 so as you can see FTP has been around a very very long time. > On Mar 26, 2018, at 10:55 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > There are lots of FTP clients for the Mac and have been available since the > inception of MacOS X and before. Some are more accessible than others.. I > use Transmit and find it very accessible. try entering FTP into the Search > field in the App Store and see what comes up. > > Later... > > > On Mar 26, 2018, at 06:49, dan d. <dandun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > In terminal there are ftp and sftp. > On Mon, 26 Mar 2018, May Anderson wrote: > >> Good day everyone. >> >> I was wondering if there are ftp server clients for the mac yet?For example, >> like filezilla? >> >> May and Baby J, has anyone seen my new GSD dog? >> www.canadianlynx.ca >> m...@canadianlynx.ca >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > -- > XB > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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