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ncftp386 – A dual-panel FTP client for MS-DOS

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Reply 20 of 26, by konc

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If you are really looking for name suggestions, and since you initially emphasized on the norton commander look with the two panels, i'd consider what other file browsers with similar look did: use the "commander" word somehow. Total commander, volkov commander, midnight commander, why not an ftp commander also.

Reply 21 of 26, by aVd

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Hi, @Projanglez ,
I don't see any problem with "NCFTP386" name, but If you really took the note about the name, then "SlopFTP "sounds unique, @leileilol probably would be satisfied (partially, until you start to write all of your code by yourself) too, and... why not (we, as human beings,shouldn't take ourselves too seriously, and those overly-pretentious DOS users also deserve to be mocked) 🤣

Now seriously. FTP4DOS ("FTP for DOS") is a good name just like @konc's suggestion for FTPCMD ("FTP Commander").

P.S. So far primarily the licenses and the license infringements were a big problem here, but the things get even better 🤦🏻

EDIT: Typos should be corrected, since they could bring some type-o negatives 😀

Last edited by aVd on 2026-06-19, 15:42. Edited 3 times in total.

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Reply 24 of 26, by aVd

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But "SlopFTP" name is still free... I hope so 🤣

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Reply 25 of 26, by Projanglez

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Thank you all for the suggestions and feedback!

FTP4DOS v0.9.2 has just been released:

https://github.com/Projanglez/FTP4DOS/releases/tag/v0.9.2

- Renamed NCFTP386 → FTP4DOS (thanks to Yoghoo for the suggestion!)
- Swap panels with Ctrl+U (remembered across launches)
- Move with F6 (copy + delete source, recursive); rename moved to Alt+F6
- Confirmation dialogs default to Yes
- FTP panel preserves the server's original (case-sensitive) file names
- Monochrome (MDA/Hercules) display support; /MONO and /COLOR overrides
- ALT command bar (Norton-style): Alt+F1 Drive, Alt+F6 Rename[/list]

Reply 26 of 26, by Yoghoo

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Nice name. 😀 Works very nicely. No problems encountered with this release.

Only one nitpicking thing is the regional settings. Here in the Netherlands we use a decimal point for sizes (f.e. 1.595) instead of a comma. Also the date format is dd-mm-yyyy instead of mm/dd/yyyy. Not a biggie but maybe you can make it a setting in the sav file (or get it from the country setting from the config.sys)?

Anyway, thanks for this release!