DPS-FTP is a powerful FTP client for GNOME. Its interface is based on that
of Bulletproof FTP (http://www.bpftp.com). Because of this, it was originally
called Kevlar FTP. But DuPont actually sent me a notice telling me that I
can't use their trademarked product names in my product name. They were
generous enough to allow me to say that my product contains Kevlar, however.
After explaining to them that, being software, my "product" does not contain
Kevlar, and that I'm not making any money from the "product", they still would
not let me use it. So, I renamed the program to DuPont Sucks FTP, or DPS-FTP.

It's features currently include:

 * Basic FTP features: browsing local and remote directories
 * Powerful transfer queue that allows downloading and uploading multiple
   files to multiple sites in multiple directories in any order
 * Caching of directory listings
 * Fully multi-threaded
 * Multiple connections in separate windows
 * Site manager

Features planned for 1.0 include:

 * Rudimentary local file management capabilities
 * HTTP downloading (including redirected URLs)
 * Full site mirroring

DPS-FTP relies on a library I wrote, dpsftplib, which is available at the
DPS-FTP homepage (http://dpsftp.sourceforge.net). dpsftplib implements
all the networking and FTP routines, as well as the transfer queue. DPS-FTP
is nothing more than a GNOME user interface to the library. After completing
the GNOME interface, I'll begin work on a curses interface.

I develop DPS-FTP and dpsftplib on a Debian 2.1 i386 system, with glib 1.2.6,
GTK+ 1.2.6 and GNOME 1.0.54. It should compile with anything higher than GTK+
1.2.0 and GNOME 0.99, but I can't make any guarantees. If you have any
problems, please report them to me.

Eric Gillespie, Jr.
epg@pobox.com
