I actually hadn't tried using cmd-k for ftp before but decided to do
so just now; I was pleasantly supprised though it was slow.
As a test, I went to ftp://ftp.kernel.org. While I did get some
finder busy signals, it did load. I was able to read the directories
and click on the one I wanted. The directory from which I wanted to
download had lots of items and I was getting lots of busy signals. I
found two things helpful here. One was to use vokeys-w to try to read
the item after arrowing with vokeys; sometimes when an item won't
read when you arrow, it will read with vokeys-w. Secondly, with a
large number of items, I used vokeys-i and built an item chooser
menu; when it was done, I could progressively type characters and
narrow the choices down. Then I arrowed down in the item chooser menu
to wht I wanted and hit enter. Then I did cmd-c to copy. At this
point I could close the window but if I want to leave it open I use
the window chooser menu and choose the Desktop and hit enter and
paste my item there. Overall this method is probably slower than the
command-line (terminal) tools of wget, ncftp, curl etc., but the nice
thing was having the directories all mounted and not having to do
"ls" just to get a list and then try to cd to the directory--can be a
pain if it's a long path.
If you type an unresolvable name or for instanceleave off the ftp://
or for some reason the initial dialog hangs, sometimes relaunching
finder and starting over helps.
Btw I originally had the misconception that "busy" signals were
mostly a problem with using vo. But on other lists I've now heard
about the "spinning beachball" that shows up in various circumstances
so while we mprobably have some extra problems with this, it isn't
solely a vo problem.
Hth.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also".
