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From: shimniok@.cs.arizona.edu (Michael Edward Shimniok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: RE: reading README files (was: joining binhex files)
Message-ID: <299@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 10 May 90 03:00:53 GMT
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Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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> i'll admit i'm a UNIX rookie.  i have yet to find an =ftp= command that'll
> let me read a =README= file.  i find it annoying to transfer one of these
> and then quit to have to read it.  the other alternative is to transfer
> more than one, in which case they either get clobbered or a forget where
> they came from in the first place.

when ftping the file 00README or whatever, give it the filename
/dev/tty  to view the file on the screen.....

Hope that helps...

Belgarion using

shimniok@cs.arizona.edu