How to use GFTP

Chris racerx at makeworld.com
Sat May 21 06:40:34 PDT 2005


albi wrote:
> On Sat, 21 May 2005 09:21:55 -0400
> "fbsd_user" <fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I installed the package just fine. The author's info shows this
>>http://gftp.seul.org/screenshots.html
>>
>>When I enter gftp on the command line I do not get what the screenshots
>>show.
>>What am I doing wrong here.  Nowhere in the ports description does it say it
>>need xwindows to run.
> 
> 
> gftp has an X-interface and a txt-only interface, gftp-gtk vs. gftp-
> text, but if you want the interface from the screenshot you will need X
> 
> if you're using a txt-only machine, you can try midnight commander, it
> has build-in ftp-support (e.g. in midnight commander, type in :  cd
> ftp://ftp.nl.freebsd.org)
> 
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In addition, if you installed this while in X, open a term, type rehash,
then type /usr/X11R6/bin/gftp

See if that launches it.

-- 
Best regards,
Chris

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