NAME

       yafc - Yet another FTP client

SYNOPSIS

       yafc [options] [proto://][user[:password]@]hostname[: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,
       autologin and bookmarks, powerful aliases and extensive tab completion.

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
              override 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 specified, 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 successfully.

       -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  <mhe@home.se>.  This  manual page was created from the Texinfo
       documentation by Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com> for the Debian system.

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