General question about Linux

[Janina Sajka]

Do I understand that you're looking to pipe the directory listing through 
a pager? I have never tried that. I have read text files on line with 
ncftp, and I do believe they're piped via less.

 On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, 
Deedra Waters wrote:

> The only downside to ncftp is that it  does not support ls|less like lftp
> does. which is the main reason I don't use it.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > Some of the useful enhancements include tab key filename completion, just 
> > as with bash, enhanced directory listings that support lovely commands 
> > like ls -lrt, mget that understands what files may have already been 
> > downloaded and resumes aborted downloads, bookmarks, etc., etc.
> > 
> >  On Sun, 21 
> > Jul 2002, Darrell Shandrow wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Maurice,
> > > 
> > > I personally like ncftp better than standard FTP; note that it is also a
> > > command line FTP client; it just happens to contain enhancements to plain
> > > old ftp.
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Maurice A. Mines" <mmines at mines-family.net>
> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 10:43 AM
> > > Subject: Re: General question about Linux
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > hi have you tryed ncftp it seems to be ezer than a command line clint.
> > > >
> > > >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
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