Jean,

I am assuming you mean ftp programs for windows.  If so, I have been using
cute ftp which is very speech friendly and I have been using it for about a
year.  It costs about 40 dollars and you can download it from their website
at
http://www.globalscape.com
or even by typing in
http://www.cuteftp.com
because you end up on Global Scape either way.  I downloaded the program,
used it for a couple of weeks, and then registered it through the software.
I use it nearly every day to maintain three of my own websites and two
business sites I also am responsible for.  You can keep a list of ftp sites
and just cursor through them and you can keep the login and passwords stored
so it is quick and easy to log on.  You can log on, of course, to any
anonymous site as well.  The program looks and feels a lot like windows
explorer.  You just use the tab key to move between your hard drive and the
files on the ftp site.  You upload and download using hot keys such as
control page up and control page down.  You can rename, move, copy, and
delete files both on your hard drive and on the ftp site just as easily with
hot keys.  The program does way more than I'll ever need but it sure beats
having to log on from a shell account and using all the Unix commands as I
used to do for years before getting into windows.  Of course you can use the
ftp client in windows itself but unless they have improved it a lot in
windows XP, I never thought it was as convenient as this cute ftp program
is.  I tried a couple of other freeware ftp programs but never found them
remotely speech friendly as cute ftp is.

Phil.
http://www.AimingForTheStars.com


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