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From: tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy)
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Subject: Re: Our hero....tad! :-)
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Date: 14 Sep 90 19:58:02 GMT
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In-Reply-To: myb100@csc.anu.oz.au's message of 14 Sep 90 10:25:04 GMT

In article <1990Sep14.202505.2828@csc.anu.oz.au> myb100@csc.anu.oz.au writes:
> Uh, tad... if you're gonna whip up so much enthusiasm, including advertising
> it in the abcfd20 message-of-the-day in CAPITAL LETTERS, could you at least 
> spell 'new feature' correctly ? :-) :-)

Oops.  It was late.  Yeah, that's the ticket...

> would it be possible to add another command which allows you to
> examine a .readme file over the link ?  or is this *too hard*.......:-)

Several people suggested this.  It's now the non-standard XCAT command...
In UNIX ftp style:

	ftp> quote xcat /README

does what you want.  Curiously, this tickles a bug at least one ftp
client program I've tried.  If you get a core dump from ftp program,
your client can't handle such a large reply (oh well...)

Oh, and I've rewritten the README and /etc/motd files... :-)

	...tad