I'll admit: there was a time when I was a diehard command-line jockey. I've mellowed in my old age, and begrudgingly admit that graphical user interfaces do have their place. One such area is in FTP clients: whereas before, I used to swear by NcFTP, now I use gFTP as my main uploading tool.
The reason for the change was not even usability. For a time, I was hosted with Netfirms (and I still am, but not after this contract expires), but their FTP service was utterly retarded. It would constantly time out for long downloads. Eventually, I had to give up on NcFTP and switch to gFTP.
gFTP is quite intuitive, so there's not a whole lot of instruction that's needed. Top bar gives you the server, username, and password boxes, along with the connection buttons. Left window is your local file system; right window is your remote system. Bottom area is your FTP dialog.
gFTP automatically reconnects so there's no more problem with FTP servers timing out.
The reason for the change was not even usability. For a time, I was hosted with Netfirms (and I still am, but not after this contract expires), but their FTP service was utterly retarded. It would constantly time out for long downloads. Eventually, I had to give up on NcFTP and switch to gFTP.
gFTP is quite intuitive, so there's not a whole lot of instruction that's needed. Top bar gives you the server, username, and password boxes, along with the connection buttons. Left window is your local file system; right window is your remote system. Bottom area is your FTP dialog.
gFTP automatically reconnects so there's no more problem with FTP servers timing out.
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