>Yupp, I always recommend to check the current capabilities of the package Rick offers.
>Up next is a tossup of buying from other (relatively) small vendor or look in Dotnet...

Speaking of ftp, to maintain my website I generate pages locally and then sync up with the site using Martina's (et al) ftp class, which is a wrapper around windows API. And it worked flawlessly for years, still does. Previously I was using Chilkat but then something changed in 2013 (SSL?) and its then version just couldn't, or I didn't know how.

Anyway, it still works, even under linux/wine. Now that I moved part of it to Python/Dabo (greetings to Ed Leafe, Paul McNett and John Fabiani), I decided I may try to repeat the ftp part in Python. It's a lot easier there, I don't even need my wrapper around someone's wrapper, it's just three lines (instantiate, change ftp dir, sendBinary()). The amazing part is how this ftp from Python is about ten times faster than either of the previous methods, regardless of the faked windows operation under wine, which wasn't any slower than when I switched from running it natively under W7 to running it under wine. The only explanation is that it's keeping the handle so not reconnecting for each file - but then it's also that Double Commander (Ghisler for Linux) is also much slower than this when sending dozens of files.