Resco has always been one of my favorite Palm development houses – their products score rave reviews on TamsPalm, and they are always ready for an interview or a site tour…cool! Anyways, their file manager will soon get a very interesting upgrade…and TamsPalm readers get to look at it first.

After starting up Explorer, one immediately notes the ‘taskbar’ at the top. This bar shows your position in the file system structure and allows you to go back by a few levels quickly:
bar0 Resco Explorer goes FTP

When back-tracking, the folders below get greyed out to make jumping back there later easy. This is a great feature that can be very handy in everyday use…
bargrey Resco Explorer goes FTP

The Network node in the main tree allows you to add FTP servers to the file system tree:
ftpsrvr Resco Explorer goes FTP

These servers appear as ‘memory cards’ and can be used exactly like those – FTP is implemented very well in Explorer:
ftp1 Resco Explorer goes FTP ftp2 Resco Explorer goes FTP

Transfer speed is high on my Palm TX – no lagging when browsing folders,…

As for getting this upgrade, FTP is expected to become available to the public in May. As for the other function, no ETA is given as of now…we’ll keep you updated though. Customers who can prove having purchased Explorer less than a year ago(the TamsShop team has these proves prepared for its customers) get the update for free. Otherwise, 50% of the then-current purchase price applies as upgrade fee.

Resco plans to increase the price of the product significantly with this update – thus, getting the program now may be a good idea. The discount code BETTERFASTTHANCLAUCI gets you 20% off the program at the TamsShop btw…

Overall, congratulations to Resco on yet another well-done update to their file manager…nothing more to say here…

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2 Responses to “Resco Explorer goes FTP”

  1. Is there any way to mount an FTP location as a folder or a memory card to be used outside explorer, for example to save photos or videos directly to the location or to open files from it in other applications directly?

  2. Hi,
    IMHO, as of now not…

    But there was such a possibility years ago(InfiniFile or so)…got discontinued though…

    Best regards
    Tam Hanna

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