General question about Linux

[Janina Sajka]

As someone here said a little while ago,

pls

will do what you want. Well, it will pretty much do what you want. You 
cannot page back, as you can with less. It's really like more, not less.

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Deedra Waters wrote:

> no, just that I can use ls|less so that the listing does not scroll off
> the  screen with large listing's. and with ncftp, I haven't been able to
> do that.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > 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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