YAFC(1)                                                   YAFC(1)



NAME
       yafc - Yet another FTP client

SYNOPSIS
       yafc      [options]      [proto://][user[:password]@]host-
       name[:port][/directory]

DESCRIPTION
       This manual documents Yafc. Yafc is quite a  powerful  ftp
       client.  It is a console interface to the ftp protocol. If
       you're looking for a nice GUI client, Yafc is not for you.
       If  you, however, use ftp often and want a fast, powerful,
       friendly client Yafc is here for you...

       Some of the features are  recursive  get/put/ls/rm,  nohup
       transfers,  colored ls, cached directory listings, autolo-
       gin and bookmarks, powerful aliases and extensive tab com-
       pletion.


OPTIONS
       -a, --anon
              Try  an  anonymous  login,  ie login as "anonymous"
              with your email address  as  password.  Your  email
              address  is  first  looked  for  in the config file
              ("anon_password"), then in the  $EMAIL  environment
              variable.  If  it's not found, a guess is made from
              your user- and hostname.

       -d, --debug
              Print all messages sent to/from server.

       -D, --dump-rc
              Prints the default configuration file  to  standard
              output.

       -m MECH, --mechanism=MECH
              Try  security mechanism MECH when logging in to the
              host specified on the command line. This will over-
              ride  any  'mech'  options  in yafcrc or bookmarks.
              MECH is a colon-separated string, supported  values
              are  "krb4",  "krb5" and "none". The mechanisms are
              tried in the order specified.

       -n, --norc
              Do not read the users configuration file. This will
              cause yafc to use its default settings.

       -p, --noproxy
              Do  not  connect via the proxy. This should be used
              if connection to a host on the local network.

       -q, --quiet
              Do not print the  welcome  message  with  copyright
              information when starting Yafc.

       -r FILE, --rcfile=FILE
              Read another configuration file.

       -t FILE, --trace[=FILE]
              Enable  creation  of  trace  file.  Trace files are
              mainly for debugging and  includes  every  response
              and  command Yafc receives/sends. If FILE is speci-
              fied, use that file instead of  the  default  trace
              file  (~/.yafc/trace/trace.pid,  where  pid  is the
              process id number of Yafc.) Trace  files  can  grow
              quite large and can safely be deleted.

       -u, --noauto
              Do not login automagically to the host specified on
              the  command  line.  You  can  still  use  bookmark
              aliases, though.

       -U, --noalias
              As ---noauto, but bookmark aliases is disabled (for
              host on command line).

       -v, --verbose
              Print  all  responses  received  (without  response
              code.)

       -w, --wait=TIME
              Use  a  different  time  to wait between connection
              attempts, in seconds.  This overrides the value set
              by "connect_wait_time" in the configuration file.

       -W, --workdir=DIR
              Use a different working directory for configuration
              files and temporary files. Default is ~/.yafc.

       -V, --version
              Print version information on stdout and  exit  suc-
              cessfully.

       -h, --help
              Print  a  short help description on stdout and exit
              successfully.

SEE ALSO
       The full documentation for yafc is maintained as a Texinfo
       manual.   If  the  info  and  yafc  programs  are properly
       installed at your site, the command

              info yafc

       should give you access to the complete manual.

AUTHOR
       Yafc was written by Martin Hedenfalk  .  This
       manual  page was created from the Texinfo documentation by
       Decklin Foster  for the Debian  sys-
       tem.



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