From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 29 21:08:20 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 8C79716A41F for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:08:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sandy@krvarr.bc.ca) Received: from szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca (szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca [142.179.111.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28EFE43D49 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:08:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sandy@krvarr.bc.ca) Received: from szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8TL8AdS046508; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:08:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sandy@szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca) Received: (from sandy@localhost) by szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca (8.13.1/8.12.11/Submit) id j8TL86bd046505; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:08:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sandy) From: Sandy Rutherford MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17212.22454.276014.370499@szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:08:06 -0700 To: David In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20050929092731.013ef6b0@gv.net> References: <3.0.5.32.20050929092731.013ef6b0@gv.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.3.1 X-krvarr.bc.ca-MailScanner-Information: Please contact postmaster@krvarr.bc.ca for more information. X-krvarr.bc.ca-MailScanner: Not scanned: please contact postmaster@krvarr.bc.ca for details. X-krvarr.bc.ca-MailScanner-From: sandy@szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca 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 21:08:20 -0000 >>>>> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:27:31 -0700, >>>>> David said: > 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 are an Emacs user, you can use Dired and EFS (or Ange-FTP) to browse FTP listings. Ange-FTP only understands remote unix-style listings. EFS can additionally parse listings from: VMS, CMS, MTS, MVS, ti-twenex, ti-explorer (the last two are lisp machines), TOPS-20, DOS (running the Distinct, Novell, FTP software, NCSA, Microsoft in both unix and DOS mode, Super TCP, and Hellsoft FTP servers), unix descriptive listings (dl), KA9Q, OS/2, VOS, NOS/VE, CMS running the KNET server, Tandem's Guardian OS, COKE, Mac (Running Peter's ftpd) In other words, pretty much anything. Emacs + Dired works fine on a dumb terminal. If you have X running and you would rather avoid Emacs, then search the ports for FTP clients with a GUI. There are a number of them. Sandy