From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 29 20:50:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA04658 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 20:50:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roguetrader.com (brandon@cold.org [206.81.134.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA04650 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 20:50:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by roguetrader.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA06350; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 21:50:42 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 21:50:41 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie To: "Jay D. Nelson" cc: Christoph Kukulies , freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ftp snag |****| In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > To let ftp appear as usual (or as it always has been), could > one make the default that this "progress bar schnick-schnack" a la > Microsoft would not come up, please? > > ftp> put ppp-2.2pl0-freebsd.tar.gz > local: ppp-2.2pl0-freebsd.tar.gz remote: ppp-2.2pl0-freebsd.tar.gz > 200 PORT command successful. > 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'ppp-2.2pl0-freebsd.tar.gz'. > 100% |**************************************************| 574 KB 0 0:00 ETA > 226 Transfer complete. > 588119 bytes sent in 1.05 seconds (547.07 KB/s) On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Jay D. Nelson wrote: > Use the distributed ftp instead of ncftp. Actually, that is the distributed ftp with 3.0 Frankly, I love it. Its not all in-your-face like ncftp, but it gives you a lot of the features. Most are not enabled by default, but the progress bar is enabled by default. If you dont like it, just turn it off (type: progress). There are a lot of other NICE features. As is a common response in this list: RTFM :) I.e: man ftp -Brandon Gillespie