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- From: grady@world.std.com (Dick Grady)
- Subject: Re: ftp commands
- Message-ID: <C0BBsK.E9B@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Dec31.060322.15902@tfs.com> <1992Dec31.172903.4214@tigger.jvnc.net>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:43:31 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1992Dec31.172903.4214@tigger.jvnc.net> knopf@nisc.jvnc.net (Greg Knopf) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec31.060322.15902@tfs.com>, rsw@tfs.com (Rob White) writes:
- >|> I use a unix machine to ftp to various sites.
- >|> As examples: I do not know how to read a file that is at another
- >|> site other than to transfer the file to my own site, exit ftp,
- >|> and then read the file. Kind of awkward.
- >
- >On a unix machine:
- >
- > ftp> get README.TXT /dev/tty
-
- The symbol "-" (a minus-sign) when used as a filename means standard
- output (or standard input, as appropriate). So the above can be written:
-
- ftp> get README.TXT -
-
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- Dick Grady Salem, NH, USA grady@world.std.com
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