FTP4DOS v0.9.5a released

Still enough time for a small maintenance update, before my plane takes off:
https://github.com/Projanglez/FTP4DOS/releases/tag/v0.9.5a

Changes

• Downloading files with multi-dot / long names (e.g. apack-1.00.zip) no longer fails. The local target is now mapped to a valid DOS 8.3 name (e.g. APACK-1~1.ZIP) instead of failing to create the file. Applies to both the F5 single-file download and batch copy.
• Ctrl+C now works as a shortcut for "compare panels" (the numpad + action).
• Date and Time sorting merged into one "Date/Time" criterion.

Once again, thanks for using and testing FTP4DOS!

Projanglez wrote on 2026-06-26, 08:42:

Grzyb wrote on 2026-06-25, 20:25:

Oh, and I've found that "Compare directories" is under Gray+ , which is a serious discrepancy from other NC-alikes.
No shortcut in the original NC, but it's Ctrl-C in Volkov Commander.

Pretty sure it's numpad-+ also in original nc, but let me check that again.

Numpad+ a.k.a. Gray+ is for selecting files according to a mask.
It's been like this for 40 years - it's already there in the NC 1.00 from 1986, and it's there in pretty much every NC-clone.
It's very confusing to suddenly find under such an important key a completely different function...

Looks like FTP4DOS can overcome a poor-quality packet driver - Re: Quality of packet drivers: Intel

Grzyb wrote on 2026-06-27, 01:34:

Looks like FTP4DOS can overcome a poor-quality packet driver - Re: Quality of packet drivers: Intel

My case is the opposite. Using mFTP I'm able to download at 200 KB/s but with FTP4DOS my speed is 10 KB/s. Same FTP site, same file.
My network chip is an Atheros AR8132. It's possible to get more speed with FTP4DOS?

ntalaec wrote on 2026-06-27, 10:20:

My case is the opposite. Using mFTP I'm able to download at 200 KB/s but with FTP4DOS my speed is 10 KB/s. Same FTP site, same file.
My network chip is an Atheros AR8132. It's possible to get more speed with FTP4DOS?

Well, I would suggest replacing the PD with NDIS+DIS_PKT or ODI+ODIPKT, but for such a modern chip it may be impossible to find *any* good driver for DOS...

There is an ODI driver for my chip but it uses a lot of conventional memory, which makes it unusable.

ntalaec wrote on 2026-06-27, 10:20:

My case is the opposite. Using mFTP I'm able to download at 200 KB/s but with FTP4DOS my speed is 10 KB/s. Same FTP site, same file.
My network chip is an Atheros AR8132. It's possible to get more speed with FTP4DOS?

I can't help about FTP4DOS, but it may be possible to improve the speed in mTCP FTP client...
See the conclusions at the end of this thread - Quality of packet drivers: Intel

It would be great if you could implement Unicode support for file names in FTP, converting them to the current DOS code page for correct display in panels and saving files to your computer non-latin filenames.
It would also be great if you could convert the current code page to Unicode when uploading files from your computer to FTP.
A similar open-source FTP2P program already has this functionality.

Grzyb wrote on Today, 19:45:

ntalaec wrote on 2026-06-27, 10:20:

My case is the opposite. Using mFTP I'm able to download at 200 KB/s but with FTP4DOS my speed is 10 KB/s. Same FTP site, same file.
My network chip is an Atheros AR8132. It's possible to get more speed with FTP4DOS?

I can't help about FTP4DOS, but it may be possible to improve the speed in mTCP FTP client...
See the conclusions at the end of this thread - Quality of packet drivers: Intel

For those of you who want the quick answer, the buffer sizes chosen for the TCP receive buffer and the file write buffer can have a much larger impact on faster machines. If you have a faster machine (Pentium or better) you might want to run some experiments to see if you can get faster performance by changing two values in the mTCP configuration file.