From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 6 22:18:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linkline.com (mail.linkline.com [207.67.165.2]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13AF73DAB for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 22:17:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from neon [207.67.166.34] by linkline.com (SMTPD32-5.05) id A2998709017A; Sun, 06 Feb 2000 22:13:45 -0800 From: "David W. Leask" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Alternative to ncftpget/ncftpput Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 22:18:30 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm looking for an alternative to ncftpget and ncftpput. For example, distributing files via ftp to users home directories on various machines, running different Unix's, from a script cant be done easily because $HOME and/or ~/ variables will not be expanded with ncftpput. Is there an easy way around this that I am missing? (R commands, NFS, and NIS+ are not options) -DL To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message