Re: Tombstone README for FTP service

["Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" <[e-mail]>]

Keith Moore writes:

>   * Are there GUI interfaces to that permit operations on multiple files
>     at once (identified by patterns and/or a picker) on webdav remote
>     file systems?

* Are there command line clients that mimic the behaviour of the ftp
  command?  I.e. something that will let you 'cd' and 'ls' your way
  around the remote file system.

What so many of the "kill FTP" proponents are missing is the lack
of discoverability in their proposed replacements.  Tools like
curl work fine if you already know what you want, but like going to
the library, quite often I don't know what I want until I find it.

I have spent endless hours exploring archives and the like using the
ftp command that way.  The only suggested replacement that provides
that functionality is NFS.

And that reason alone is a sufficient deal breaker for me regarding
any of the proposed FTP replacements.  (Note I'm speaking here in
the general sense.  This wasn't a particularly important aspect in
accessing the RFC/I-D archives.)

--lyndon