From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 3 13:48:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24000 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 13:48:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA23843 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 13:48:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00613; Sun, 3 May 1998 15:47:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199805032047.PAA00613@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: ftp.freebsd.org acting funny? In-Reply-To: <199805031727.LAA22311@lariat.lariat.org> from Brett Glass at "May 3, 98 11:27:39 am" To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 15:47:53 -0500 (EST) Cc: dg@root.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass said: > Does this mean we actually have an FTP server that can send a text file > without forcing you to download it? I've been annoyed by lack of support > for this > for YEARS. > I am not sure if this isn't what you are talking about: ftp> get file.ext |more If you do this with our standard ftp program, it will pipe the output to more, instead of a file. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message