I'm needing to create two programs, a client and a server that will take a file via command line parameter, compress, encrypt and send it from one computer to another (possibly over the Net) and decrypt, decompress and save file in original form. In Delphi I would probably use some of the ICS components, but seem to have problems compiling. It seems there is a socket unit in FPC with examples, but I haven't managed to get the 2.0.4 version working on my XP machine - doesn't seem to be firewall problem. For now the two programs don't need a GUI interface. Reason I need to make the programs is because ftp server is too insecure. I'm busy trying to get the latest versions of FPC to see if it works with them.

Any advice is welcome, thanks
Stephen
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Any advice is welcome, thanks Stephen

You can try Synapse Lib (synapse.ararat.cz).

Leonardo M. Ramé
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Stephen Dickason wrote

In Delphi I would probably use some of the ICS

There are ports of ICS and Indy for FPC, but AFAIK they work under Windows only. If you are familiar with ICS you can choose lNet (first letter is 'L'), especially if you plan to build GUI applications with Lazarus.

OR

You can look at Filezilla client and server. Those programs support SFTP and on-the-fly compression, though server is available for Windows only.

> In Delphi I would probably use some of the ICS There are ports of ICS and Indy for FPC, but AFAIK they work under Windows only.

The current version of Indy is available for most platforms, and works fine with Lazarus.