Re: [cobalt-users] My .htaccess files are hidden.

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> Neither FTP nor shell access is actually prohibited from viewing .files,
>> they just need a qualifier to the 'ls' command to view them as they're
>> normally hidden.
> 
> Quite so.. however most folks that ask questions like the above (which is
> not an issue I might add) are extremely unlikely to be using the FTP clients
> that you mention and are most likley to be using WSFTP or similar... no?
> Which is why I put the answer in the way I did.

I am fairly certain that any professional or industrial quality FTP client
should support the viewing of '.' files.  I am not sure if WSFTP is included
in that category--they have gone downhill quite a bit from back in the day.

If you need a Win32 FTP client, I think CuteFTP has that as an option--but
also CuteFTP has gone downhill.

I know for a fact that you can 'view' those files in Fetch for Macintosh.

>> If you use command line FTP, using 'ls -a' does list them,
>> so you just need an FTP product that allows this, like the one I mentioned
>> in an earlier post.
> 
> Now you are scaring me... "command line FTP" - is that in the Mac OS ?  :))
> 
> You see my point?

Sure, you can get command line FTP clients for the Macintosh.  I think there
is an ncFTP port, if nothing else.  GNU should have a version as well.

But essentially if your FTP program can't view/download/upload/whatever
files beginning with a '.' then it is time to find a new FTP client--it
doesn't meet a basic requirement.

-k