Are you using OS X. Because there is a command line ftp program, just like in Windows. There is also a "Connect to server" in the finder that will connect to AFS, SMB, NFS, CIFS, WebDav, FTP... do you need more? If this is OS 9 your options are different but still there. This really does seem like an issue of the right person and the right tool. Give me a shop full of wood working tools and I'll make a door stop, give it to Bob Villa and you'll obviosly have better results. Give someone a Mac who has no idea how to use it and, well, I think we know what you get. Same goes for Linux, NetWare, Solaris, BSD. You can hardly blame a peice of equipment or software for your lack of knowledge about it.
Here's a small rant of mine. The biggest compliant I receive from people about technology and computers in particular is the terrible customer support. And not so much that people don't get their issues resolved but that the people who help them don't admit when they aren't knowledgeable on a subject and blame the hardware/software manufacturer for something not working right. If it takes longer because you don't know how to do it, just say so. If I was told to troubleshoot an AS/400 I don't think 1 hour of messing around with it would be bad, since I don't know it. I would hardly say the AS/400 is junk, or that I hate them.
Keith
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>>;I'm a big fan of our Mac. Without our Mac - I'd have nothing to take my frustrations out on. On those days when things are going smoothly and I need to sit and waste an hour or two - I turn on the Mac and attempt to do something only to find that...the network isn't working right or it doesn't have the right software or the software doesn't want to connect because something mystical isn't in alignment with the planets. Short of getting a young priest and an old priest to have a session with the Mac, I loathe its existence.>>
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