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Title: LFTP command line file transfer program
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Entered-date: 2004-05-31
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Description: LFTP is a shell-like command line ftp client. It is
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reliable: can retry operations and does reget automatically.
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It can do several transfers simultaneously in background.
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You can start a transfer in background and continue browsing
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the ftp site or another one. This all is done in one process.
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Background jobs will be completed in nohup mode if you exit
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or close modem connection. Lftp has reput, mirror, reverse
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mirror among its features. Since version 2.0 it also supports
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http protocol. Other features include: ipv6 support, context
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sensitive completion, output redirection to files or to pipe,
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SOCKS support (configure option), ftp and http proxy support,
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transfer rate throttling for each connection and for all
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connections in sum, job queueing, job execution at specified
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time, opie/skey support in ftp protocol, ssl for http and ftp,
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fxp transfers. Version 3.0 supports sftp v3 and v4 protocols.
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Keywords: ftp, client, readline, reliable, background, parallel, http,
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protocol, network, fish, sftp, https, ftps
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Author: lav@yars.free.net (Alexander V. Lukyanov)
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Maintained-by: lav@yars.free.net (Alexander V. Lukyanov)
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Primary-site: ftp.yars.free.net /pub/software/unix/net/ftp/client/lftp
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1613 kB lftp-3.0.5.tar.gz
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Alternate-site: metalab.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/network/file-transfer
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Copying-policy: GNU GPL