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Date:      Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:34:56 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        David <freebsd-questions@gv.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: long ftp dir listings
Message-ID:  <20050929163456.GI68105@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20050929092731.013ef6b0@gv.net>
References:  <3.0.5.32.20050929092731.013ef6b0@gv.net>

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In the last episode (Sep 29), David said:
> Dear list,
> 
> I am often annoyed trying to get a long directory listing from my unix box
> while ftp'ing somewhere. <pause> is hardly useful, since the listing goes
> by to quickly. Occasionally, I have found a site that uses |more , but this
> is unusual. I often resort to using ftp in Windows DOS mode so I can scroll
> up a long listing. Any good methods would be appreciated.

If you're on a vty, hit scroll-lock and pageup. 

/usr/bin/ftp also has a "pdir" command that pipes the output to $PAGER
locally.  

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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