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WHAT IS TNFTP?
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`tnftp' is a `port' of the NetBSD FTP client to other systems.
See http://www.NetBSD.org/ for more details about NetBSD.

tnftp was formerly known as `lukemftp'
It was renamed to `tnftp' by Luke Mewburn in February 2003.

The enhancements over the standard ftp client in 4.4BSD (and
derivatives) include:
        * command-line editing within ftp
        * command-line fetching of URLS, including support for:
            - http proxies (see $http_proxy, $ftp_proxy)
            - authentication
        * configurable prompt
        * context sensitive command and filename completion
        * dynamic progress bar
        * feature negotiation extensions from RFC 2389
          (see `feat' and `remopts')
        * extensions to ftp from the IETF ftpext working group
          (see `mlsd' and `mlst')
        * IPv6 support (from the WIDE project)
        * modification time preservation
        * paging of local and remote files, and of directory listings
          (see `lpage', `page', `pdir')
        * passive mode support, with fallback to active mode
        * retrieval of filenames listed in a given file (see `fget')
        * `set option' override of ftp environment variables
        * TIS Firewall Toolkit gate ftp proxy support (see `gate')
        * transfer-rate throttling (see `-T', `rate')
        * uploading of files on the command line (see `-u')
        * (Dante) SOCKS5 support

Previous features, currently disabled until a test system is available:
        * SOCKS4 support


INSTALLATION
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Refer to `INSTALL' for more information on how to compile and install tnftp.


FEEDBACK / BUG REPORTS
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Please email feedback back to the maintainer:
        Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>.


COPYRIGHT
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tnftp is covered by a BSD-style copyright notice.
Please refer to the file `COPYING' for more information.


AVAILABILITY
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The primary ftp site for tnftp is:
        ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tnftp/


DOCUMENT REFERENCE
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$NetBSD: README,v 1.10 2007/08/06 01:58:57 lukem Exp $

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