Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Remote "cat" during ftp connection
Message-ID: <2656@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 21 Nov 89 22:30:25 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
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>> Is it possible to list text files during an ftp connection?
>Some ftp clients let you "get" to a file named "-", meaning the
>display.

Any UNIX worth its salt should let you "get" to a file named "/dev/tty",
meaning the user's terminal, so even if "-" doesn't work it should be
possible.  Of course, this just dumps it directly to the terminal, so if
neither your terminal or terminal emulator nor your system's tty driver
pauses at the end of a screenful of data, you'd better be a fast reader
or be running over a slow link....