Screen Paging and FTP

Scott Doty scott at sonic.net
Thu Mar 30 02:22:33 PST 2000


On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 12:19:28AM -0800, troy wrote:
> Like Steve said, ncftp is the way to go.  Among other things, it supports
> bookmarks and command line completion.  And it has a command called, 'page'
> :)
> 
> As for standard ftp, you can try the 'help' command to see what your client
> supports.

You can do this:

   ftp> ls * |more

However, it will almost always list the contents of the ".." directory,
which can be a pain.  Check out ncftp. :)

 -Scott



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