Hi all,
I've been asking for FTP access since ever. Activesync is fine for
synchronizing files, that's what it was made for, but I'll wager that
the greater percentage of users have gotten into the habit of simply
using cards to transfer files because it is the only quick, fail-safe
and efficient way to do file transfer. Now if you could do FTP over a
network, or somehow even over a serial connection, that would simplify
and clarify things emensely. The software would be on both machines.
There would be none of this partnership gumbus and fiddling around
with first making a serial connection then making a connection of some
other type. You'd just type ftp hostname and user and password and
boom, there would be your connection and just a simple get or mget and
you'd have your files. No fuss, no muss, no fiddling, no
malarkifizing!
Leave Activesync for those who want to actually synchronize their
files. Leave FTP to do file transfer, what it was made for!
Scary thought, you could put it in the file manager menu next to copy
file. It would simply say, transfer file. You would hit enter, it
would ask you for a hostname,, probably your username and password,
then it would ask you for the file name. You could even, scary
thought indeed, set up a connectivity option for FTP, put in all the
info and just simply type in the name of the connection and hit enter,
and be taken through the options for finding the file you want.
Assuming that you could have access in the same way to the structure
of the remote host, you'd have the same type of dialog: drive, folder
and file. Of course you'd want to make all transfers in binary cuz
sure as God made little green apples, somebody'd forget and complain
that the BN had ruined their favorite MP3 of Suzie Malcum singing "I
dream of you Nightly." <smile>
Now if Windows CE can't support FTP, I'll quit asking. If there's a
good technical reason why we can't have FTP, then I'll shut up and go
back under my rock. However, I haven't heard anything yet, so I'm
going to continue to ask.
Ann P.
Note: no, there's no Suzie Malcum and no "I dream of you nightly".
Just to satisfy the literal folks around here.
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