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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