[178] in comp.os.os2.announce archive
NEW RELEASE: VxFTP version 1.00
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sheriff@uunet.uu.net)
Fri Sep 15 22:57:32 1995
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 17:11:42 GMT
From: sheriff@uunet.uu.net
Reply-To: hhyten@mail.utexas.edu
Submitted by: Howard Hyten (hhyten@mail.utexas.edu)
Source: Howard Hyten (hhyten@mail.utexas.edu)
Date received: 1995 September 15
Date posted: 1995 September 15
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I am releasing what I hope is my final version of VxFTP, a freeware
PM-based FTP client for OS/2. Available currently at:
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/incoming/vxftp100.zip
ftp://microlib.cc.utexas.edu/microlib/os2/tcpip/vxftp100.zip
http://sheriff.law.utexas.edu
VxFTP exploits a number of native OS/2 features, particularly pop-up
menus and multiple, pre-emptive threads. For instance, though you may
be downloading a group of files, VxFTP still allows you to manipulate
files that are already on your local system. Through the pop-up menus
(accessible via the right-mouse button), you can unzip ZIP archives,
read a README file, and execute a program directly from within VxFTP,
all while another download is occurring.
I've worked on VxFTP for a couple of years, starting it because at the
time, there were no PM alternatives to FTP-PM. I've done all I want
to with it -- REXX is both a development aid and a limitation -- so
I will soon be publishing the VX-REXX source code.
The install program now creates a WebExplorer_URL object that points
to some VxFTP Help Web pages.
Hope you all enjoy VxFTP.
What's new?
Version 1.00
* Added "Kill Connection" item under Connections menu.
* Added the most oft-requested feature: a download progress
indicator. This is through a little trick someone emailed me:
to use the REXX STREAM "query size" function. Same trick
_doesn't_ work for uploading however. Also doesn't appear
to work on all systems.
* Fixed a stupid bug where choosing to "view" a file from a UNIX
or VMS host (which causes an ASCII transfer to occur) would
leave the transfer mode in ASCII. The user had to toggle the
transfer type to ASCII, then back to Binary. Chalk this one up
to sketchy IBM documentation.
* Moved "Re-login" info to its own Settings page.
* Fixed bug where the settings for sorting the Remote File LIst
wouldn't remain the same from session to session.
* Created Help through the new WebExplorer_URL class.
Help is actually a set of web pages served up by my Pentium
at work via OS/2 GoServ.
* Fixed two or three minor cosmetic bugs.
