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FTP support in NDN/DOS (Announce)

posted by ho1459 Homepage E-mail, Germany, 30.06.2009, 15:05

Hi Jap!

> It's an inconsistent user interface. There is such a huge menu system in
> NDN which is supposed to navigate through all of NDN's features, but to
> open the FTP dialog you need to enter a cmdline command.
NDN behaves very consistently:
a) Open drives/VFS/directories via ALT-F1/F2
In Options.File Manager.Setup.Behaviour you will find the option
"[ALT-F~1~/F2] Show VFS" - turn it on.

b) Open drives/VFS via the driveline with the mouse
Enable "Show VFS on Driveline" in the same configuration menu.
You should now see something like this:
[ C D E F G H I J K L M N X Z * ? # : ]

c) Open drives from the command line:
C: for drive C
*: for the temp VFS
#: for FTP...

If you want you might as well type the ftp URL on the command line
and NDN will try to connect to the server instantly.

> As an example for a consistent user interface see "Far Manager":
> There's an FTP entry in the menu which is opened with ALT-F1/F2.
I don't want to argue about the correct historical context on which
file manager existed first and what file manager introduced which
features first. ;)
A really good and interesting site on this is the OFM:
http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/index.shtml
http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/index.shtml#Comparison Table
http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/Paradigm/Ch05/far.shtml
http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/Paradigm/Ch03/dos_navigator.shtml

All the best,
Stefan / AH

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