FTP2000 -- FTP2000 has the humble goal of being the best native 32-bit FTP Client in history. It certainly patterns itself after one of the best -- many of the features and aspects of the interface mirror those of the reigning champ, CuteFTP, quite closely. While FTP2000 is still in early beta release, the client still has a lot of ground to cover before it can be considered in the same class as the likes of CuteFTP and WS-FTP. Like CuteFTP, it sports critical features like a smooth drag and drop interface, Keep-Alive connection pulsing for avoiding FTP timeouts, directory and multiple file transfers, auto-detect transfer mode, right-mouse button functionality, file mask filtering, firewall/proxy support, integration with the system registry for file association and pulling proxy information, a basic site manager (lacks an extensive collection of sites), quick sorting (on name, size, type, and dates of files), and more. FTP2000 also includes a built-in remote editor for allowing you to edit and save files on a remote server without having to repeatedly go through the manual process of downloading, editing, saving, and finally uploading files. For a new release, FTP2000 offers quite a selection of features, but it does lack several important features found in the competition, including options for creating new directories as well as renaming and removing files and existing directories, an online help system, file searching, auto-renaming capabilities, a customizable toolbar, local and remote path saving, CuteFTP's integrated file listing process (with descriptions from the remote site's index file), WS-FTP's auto-reget (automatic resume), session spawning, and automatic logging.

Pros: Solid set of features, Explorer-like interface and tools, easy to use
Cons: Lacks critical features found in the competition, expensive relative to the competition
New: Internal local/remote site HTML editor, more

Version Reviewed: 1.0 Official Release Date of Review: 9/12/96

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