General question about Linux

Steve Holmes steve at holmesgrown.com
Tue Jul 23 00:11:17 EDT 2002


I always thought it did.  I always took advantage of the built-in
'pdir' command which accomplished the same thing - listing the
directory and piping it into your favorite which for me is less.  I
used that all the time.

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:26:32AM -0400, 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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