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From: quang@CSUFRES.CSUFRESNO.EDU (Quang Ngo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: RE: Amiga FTPing
Message-ID: <9106211627.AA06096@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU>
Date: 21 Jun 91 16:27:26 GMT
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| >>>Hello, I'm new to FTPing and have a few questions:
| >>> 
| >>>3) Is there any way to look at the contents of a readme file without exiting
| >>>ftp?
| >>
| >>Don't think so.  If there is LET ME KNOW!!!
| 
| Sure there is.  A couple, actually.  You can always precede any
| command fromthe ftp>  prompt with a !  and it will start up a new
| shell and execute that command inside it.   Like...
| 
| ftp>!more readme
| 
| But you have to get the file down first.  The way I usually do it is:
| 
| ftp>get <filename> |more
| 
| Or use less if your system has it, that way you can back up if you
| need to.  This also works for directories:
| 
| ftp>dir * |less
| 
| Hope this helped.
| --
| Matt Ranney
| mjr@uther.calvin.edu


Try: 
ftp>get <filename> -

-Quang Ngo (csufres.CSUFresno.EDU)