Register here to use this system. We prefer that if at all possible people use the bbftp service. This service is to be preferred over traditional ftp, since it is both more secure and tries to optimize network bandwidth usage. Since it is more secure than traditional ftp the filesystems are mounted read-write and the service can accept incoming file transfers. Users' home directories and group areas are also available for this service.
Options are available to enable compression, specify the number of parallel transfer streams etc.
This command is suitable for command line use - the user name and password are supplied when the command is invoked. However, for use in a script bbftp would normally need the username and password to be stored in a file. This is obviously not a good solution. For this reason the bbftpcd and bbftpc commands should be used. The user should start the bbftpcd daemon to contact the remote host - supplying username and password.