Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!trn
From: trn@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Tony Nardo)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Remote "cat" during ftp connection
Message-ID: <3921@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 89 13:30:47 GMT
References: <4579@jjmhome.UUCP> <4126@phri.UUCP>
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roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:

|In article <4579@jjmhome.UUCP> km3t@jjmhome.UUCP (Dave Pascoe KM3T) writes:
|> Is it possible to list text files during an ftp connection?

|	Many ftp clients allow you to use "-" as a local filename to mean
|standard input or output, as appropriate.  Thus "get remote -" prints the
|remote file on your terminal.

Failing this, you can always use /dev/tty (Unix), TT: (VMS), or whatever your
generic terminal name is as your output device on a remote "get".
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