Welcome to fspcli version 1.1

fspcli, easy to use front end to the fsp programs fspcli means
fspCommandLineInterface or fspCLIent, whatever you prefer. This is my
very own flexible, comfy fsp environment. Look at this:

Features of fspcli:
- host aliases with associated port and directory. Just go 'server wua'
  or 'server wua-ibm' to end up in wuarchive's ibm directory. Or if you
  prefer: 'server tsx-11.mit.edu 21'.
- some commands: get/mget, put/mput, more/less, zmore, zget, zput, message,
  help, ping, edit.
- Lots of aliases builtin, your fav. name for a command is likely there,
  if not you can add it easily.
- Many aspects of fspcli's behaviour is configurable: prompt, trace,
  beep, verbose/brief (so you can shut it up or use it as company
  on lonely evenings ;-)
- Commandline arguments or environment variable sets default behaviour.
- Macros with parameters (no conditionals or loops tho, _much_ better
  than nothing).
- Readline input
- Batch generation (get/put files later or in background).
- Builtin help. (in fact, no man page available at all)
- Perl script, not huge executable. (you need all the little fsp programs tho)
- Author hungry to hear sugestions on how to enhance it (might not agree
  with you tho)

* NEW IN 1.1:

Features:
  Gnu readline for input.

Commands:
  batch: Build a batch file for later use. (and the accompanying submit
         and forget commands) 
  alias: Alias mechanism with parameters.
  timeout: timeout for some commands
  password: password for newer servers and clients


* REQUIREMENTS:

- Perl
- The fsp client programs
- Gnu readline.pl as found on alt.sources included.

* INSTALLING:

You need to edit fspcli some so it find's it's way on your site. Edit
the first line of course, then correct the variables in the "####
Configuration ####" section. Then start fspcli, it will complain some
but that's ok. Now do "help fspcli" to se how fspcli can be invoked
and "help files" to see how to make a .fsprc and .fsphosts file. This
distribution includes fsprc and fsphosts files that you can use.

***NOTE***: the filenames have changed since 1.0. .fspclirc is
no-longer used. If you have a .fspclirc file you can just rename it to
.fsphosts as the format is the same.

About readline.pl: It seems to work on: sparc/SunOS, dec/ultrix and
i386/Linux. Does not seem to work on alpha/osf/1, sgi/irix. That's the ones
I have checked. If it don't work right then try setting $readline=0,
then you get plain unix input :-(. If you want it to work you should
hack it and send reports/diffs back to the readline author (the author
of readline.pl, not me)

* MISCELANIA:

Any feedback is appreciated (I think ;-)

Se source for credits and so on.

Distributed under the GNU Copyleft (do "find COPYING" and read one
of those).

* BUGS:

- . (dot) filenames have changed. This to be fsp client standard compliant.
- All fields in the .fsphosts file are required, esp. the description
  field.

Please submit any bugs you find to me.

UiO, 12/5/93, Nicolai Langfeldt, (janl@ifi.uio.no)

