Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!regina!hercules!cazabon From: cazabon@hercules (Charles Cazabon (186-003-526)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Subject: Re: Amiga FTPing Message-ID: <626@regina.uregina.ca> Date: 22 Jun 91 09:17:52 GMT References: <1991Jun19.230107.5607@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Sender: news@regina.uregina.ca Reply-To: cazabon@hercules.uregina.ca (Charles Cazabon (186-003-526)) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan Lines: 44 In article <1991Jun19.230107.5607@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> ii9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: :Hello, I'm new to FTPing and have a few questions: : :1) I can't seem to download some files. I get an error message something like :"not a plain file". How do I get these? You have to tell it that you want to transfer a non-ascii file. You do this by issuing the command "type binary" or on some systems, "type I". :2) In ab20, there's a file called "FILES.Z" which according to the readme is :supposed to be an index to what files are at that site. But it seems to be :compressed in some way I'm not familiar with. I've tried arc, zoo, lharc, warp :, etc. but nothing works. It's called Unix Compress. While you have it in your Unix/VMS/whatever account, type uncompress FILES.Z, it should extract it. Or, you could read it without decompressing it. Do this by typing "zcat FILES.Z | more". Cat prints a file to the screen; zcat does this with a compressed file, but decompresses it 'on the fly'. The " | more" means to 'pipe' the output to the program 'more', which gives you the "" every 24 lines and lets you read it before it scrolls away. :3) Is there any way to look at the contents of a readme file without exiting :ftp? Yes; again, you can pipe it. Do a "get file.readme |more" (no space between the pipe symbol (shift-backslash on some keyboards) and the 'more'. This works on about half the systems. Otherwise you will end up with it in your account. If this happens, type "!" and . You will get your shell prompt, where you can now "more file.readme". When you are finished reading it, type ctrl-D to exit the subshell and get back to the ftp. :4) I downloaded Oberon from ab20, but it's crippleware. Anyone know if the :full version is done yet, and how much it costs? : :Please reply via E-mail, and I'll summarize. : Brian Slesinsky : II9Y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu Couldn't email you; sorry. --Chuck Cazabon, cazabon@hercules.uregina.ca * My Opinions Are Not My Own...Feel Free To Plagiarize