Well, my first suggestion is to figure out what is not working when you
try to use SNARFUSER and SNARFPASS, because I use them regularly, and they
are known to work. The basic sequence I use is:
export SNARFUSER=myuserid
export SNARFPASS=mypassword
snarf -v ftp://ftp.host.com/path/file.extension
Next, if you have access to both systems, you can just use netcat (nc) or
rsh/rshd to transfer stuff in a much more convenient and optimal way.
Note, I expect to be replacing snarf with an ftp/http client written in
Lua.
If you really want to add a different ftp client, any libc5 program should
work.
-Tom
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Bill Pierce wrote:
> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:57:02 -0500
> From: Bill Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [tomsrtbt] which ftp works?
>
> Twice recently I've wanted to use tomsrtbt to ftp files. The first
> time I wanted to put some files too big to copy to floppy from a
> system that had a partially corrupt hard drive and wouldn't boot. The
> second time I want to get a large file from a system without anonymous
> ftp and I couldn't get SNARFUSER & SNARFPASS to work. In the first
> case I moved the corrupted drive to a another system and did a drive
> to drive copy. In the second I got the file to a third system that I
> controlled where I added anonymous ftp just to be able to get the file
> to the desired system. In each case what would have taken maybe 15
> minutes took a half day instead.
>
> I've searched the archives (Thanks so much Tom, for fixing them. Like
> the song says "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.) and
> found a couple of messages saying that ftp from another source was
> successfully used with tomsrtbt. Unfortunately, neither mentioned what
> the other source was. What ftp clients will work with tomsrtbt?
> Debian, Red Hat, other and which versions?
>
> Bill Pierce
>
