FTP Program running from 1.4 MB disk?
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FTP Program running from 1.4 MB disk?
Hi!
I'm curreently away from home and have to rely on library computers to update my website. Unfortunatly, not all of those computers I am using have an USB port. (FileZilla by the way works great from USB sticks, thanks for that. ) But I still want to update my website from those computers only having a disk drive. (Installing programms on the computers themselves would not work and is forbidden anyway, but it's no problem running stuff from USB sticks, so I suppose, running sth. from disk should be fine, too.)
I am therefore looking for a tiny FTP client (command line would be fine if there was enough documentation) which can run rom a 1.4 MB disk.
Is there such a programm?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Christian
I'm curreently away from home and have to rely on library computers to update my website. Unfortunatly, not all of those computers I am using have an USB port. (FileZilla by the way works great from USB sticks, thanks for that. ) But I still want to update my website from those computers only having a disk drive. (Installing programms on the computers themselves would not work and is forbidden anyway, but it's no problem running stuff from USB sticks, so I suppose, running sth. from disk should be fine, too.)
I am therefore looking for a tiny FTP client (command line would be fine if there was enough documentation) which can run rom a 1.4 MB disk.
Is there such a programm?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Christian
Every Windows computer already has a built-in command line ftp client. (Type ftp at command line)
If you want to squeeze Filezilla onto floppy, try packing the executable using upx (http://upx.sourceforge.net/). Keep in mind that some Windows version may have problems with upx packed executables.
If you want to squeeze Filezilla onto floppy, try packing the executable using upx (http://upx.sourceforge.net/). Keep in mind that some Windows version may have problems with upx packed executables.
The problem is that there is a file (forgot name/extension) which is really large and which upx can't compress...botg wrote:If you want to squeeze Filezilla onto floppy, try packing the executable using upx (http://upx.sourceforge.net/). Keep in mind that some Windows version may have problems with upx packed executables.
Christian
Would this also work with the most recent version (just copying the .exe onto the floppy disk)?derf wrote:The other option would be to look up older versions of FZ that would fit on a floppy (since older releases are smaller). And more specifically, only the FileZilla.exe executable file. It can operate without all the other files, but you can't do sftp though.
Christian
windows ftp.exe on floppy
You can actually/simply copy the windows "ftp.exe" file in the system32 directory (under c:\windows or c:\winnt) to a floppy & use that. Running it will launch the command line up for you to enter the FTP commands. "Quit" command will terminate the program. This comes in handy if you aren't allowed to enter command line from public PCs. But requires that you are allowed to run executables from floppy.botg wrote:Every Windows computer already has a built-in command line ftp client. (Type ftp at command line)
However, this only works under Windows 2000 and XP, I think. And both Windows 2000 and XP only support their version of the windows ftp program, so you'll need to get a copy of both executables if you want to be able to run on Windows 2000 and XP systems. Simply rename each ftp.exe to identify for Windows 2000 or XP.
You can try to compress FileZilla.exe using UPX (http://upx.sf.net), but the resulting executable may not work on all Windows versions.
Re: FTP Program running from 1.4 MB disk?
I'm impressed byTigerDE2 wrote:I am looking for a tiny FTP client (command line would be fine if there was enough documentation) which can run from a 1.4 MB disk.
Tom's root boot http://www.toms.net/rb/
.
Once you boot from this 1.4 MB floppy,
it includes a FTP utility called "wget"
as well as many other rescue tools.
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David