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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to view files from FTP.
Message-ID: <15160@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 11 Feb 91 09:06:36 GMT
References: <143291@tiger.oxy.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <143291@tiger.oxy.edu> colello@oxy.edu (Robert Scott Colello) writes:
>  I just got an account on a NeXT system with Unix.  How can I view files
>before I download them to the NeXT via FTP.  Is there any sort of "cat"
>command for FTP.  Help!!

No, because to get the file to you for viewing already constitutes a
download of the file.  Most FTPable files are not text files anyway.
For those that are, how about opening a second window and peek at them
while they're in the process of downloading.