From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 29 16:34:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF0716A41F for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:34:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B5343D4C for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:34:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j8TGYuKn083824; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:34:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:34:56 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: David Message-ID: <20050929163456.GI68105@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20050929092731.013ef6b0@gv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20050929092731.013ef6b0@gv.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: long ftp dir listings X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:34:58 -0000 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. 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