Re: add LINEFEEDS?

[neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld)]

In article <1994Sep25.180345.19518@news.stolaf.edu>,
Peter F Handel <handel@lars.acc.stolaf.edu> wrote:
>Is there a command that lets you view a text file (while ftp'ing) which
>is at the ftp site w/o GETting it?  ie. FILE is 1MB big, and FILE.TXT
>describes it.
>
   If possible, get "ncftp" installed on your system. It's a front end to
FTP which supports this with the "page" command. The "predir" command
fixes one of the most annoying deficiencies of vanilla FTP, the inability
to read directory elements in a long listing without scrollback or rapid
pushing of ^S.
   If you can't do that, why not just FTP the "FILE.TXT" to your local
directory and then either suspend the FTP session with ^Z or shell out
with something like:
ftp> !more FILE.TXT

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