Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Wed, 02 December 2020 02:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service
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On 12/1/20 8:45 PM, Greg Skinner wrote:

>
> AFAIK, ftp client functionality is available in Catalina and later 
> MacOS releases through the Zftp Function System 
> <https://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/programming/linux/zsh-doc/zsh_24.html>. 
>  It also may be available depending upon which Perl, Python, or Tcl 
> packages are installed.

There are also multiple Mac ftp clients available through Homebrew.   (I 
can't imagine having a MacOS box without Homebrew, just like I can't 
imagine having a Windows box without cygwin.)