OT: free FTP program with clipboard monitoring ?

I've had a good look around, but I can't see any - does anyone have a
recommendation for one with clipboard monitoring ? (i.e. copy a file
location, and if the FTP program is running, it'll download it)

Cheers


Colin Wilson

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> I've had a good look around, but I can't see any - does anyone have a
> recommendation for one with clipboard monitoring ? (i.e. copy a file
> location, and if the FTP program is running, it'll download it)

Getright sort of does that I think.
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Regards
Jon

> Getright sort of does that I think.

Thanks for the reply (and apologies for the delayed reply)

These hadn't occurred to me, as the last time I used one (4-5 years
ago) they were all rife with spyware / adware, hence the request for
an FTP program that did the same.

I have a very old Bulletproof FTP that did me well for a very long
time, but it seems to be causing problems on my system now, hence I
was after a replacement...

I went for FlashGet in the end, despite its' spyware / adware history,
as apparently it's now clean and "donationware". The results were
astounding, surpassing even what I expected, and i've seen downloads
increase from a typical 60-100k from archive.org to 660k (which is
somewhere around the absolute top line speed my current connection can
offer).

Thanks again :-)

Colin Wilson wrote:
> I went for FlashGet in the end, despite its' spyware / adware history,
> as apparently it's now clean and "donationware". The results were
> astounding, surpassing even what I expected, and i've seen downloads
> increase from a typical 60-100k from archive.org to 660k (which is
> somewhere around the absolute top line speed my current connection can
> offer).

Just be aware that users of FlashGet and similar are not being
particularly good 'netizens. The reason you were getting 60-100K from
Archive.org is because they deliberately limit connections to that speed
in order to provide a reasonable service to as large a number of people
as possible. FlashGet allows you to 'max out' your connection by making
ten or more individual connections to Archive.org and requesting
different parts of the file. The result is that you get your file
faster, but you take up as much of Archive.org's resources as ten users
would. If everyone used such a program Archive.org would only support a
tenth as many simultaneous users.

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> If everyone used such a program Archive.org would only support a
> tenth as many simultaneous users.

I would, however, be clear of their servers in a tenth of the time.

I've had a problem with their servers refusing to resume, which has
meant multiple attempts to download several files over a period of
weeks.

FlashGet gets them in one go, which means i'm also hitting them for
less traffic overall.