slackbuilds_ponce/network/tnftp

tnftp (command line FTP client)

tnftp is a port of the NetBSD FTP client to other systems.

The enhancements over the standard ftp client in 4.4BSD (and
derivatives) include:
  * command-line editing within ftp
  * command-line fetching of URLS, including support for:
      - http proxies (see $http_proxy, $ftp_proxy)
      - authentication
  * configurable prompt
  * context sensitive command and filename completion
  * dynamic progress bar
  * feature negotiation extensions from RFC 2389
    (see `feat' and `remopts')
  * extensions to ftp from the IETF ftpext working group
    (see `mlsd' and `mlst')
  * IPv6 support (from the WIDE project, see *Note below)
  * modification time preservation
  * paging of local and remote files, and of directory listings
    (see `lpage', `page', `pdir')
  * passive mode support, with fallback to active mode
  * retrieval of filenames listed in a given file (see `fget')
  * `set option' override of ftp environment variables
  * TIS Firewall Toolkit gate ftp proxy support (see `gate')
  * transfer-rate throttling (see `-T', `rate')
  * uploading of files on the command line (see `-u')
  * (Dante) SOCKS5 support (see *Note, below)

Previous features, currently disabled until a test system is available:
  * SOCKS4 support

*Note:
If you need SOCKS5 support, install network/dante before building this.

It's not possible to build a single tnftp binary with both IPv6 and
SOCKS5 support.

The binary with IPv6 support is built and installed as
"/usr/bin/tnftp.ipv6", with a symlink to "/usr/bin/tnftp". If
dante is installed, a 2nd binary is built and installed as
"/usr/bin/tnftp.socks". You can run it as "tnftp.socks", or, if desired,
adjust the symlink so the SOCKS binary is run by default:

# rm -f /usr/bin/tnftp
# ln -s tnftp.socks /usr/bin/tnftp

The package will still uninstall cleanly.

If you have dante installed but do not want to build tnftp with SOCKS,
you can export SOCKS=no in the environment.