Screen Paging and FTP

troy fryman at sonic.net
Thu Mar 30 00:19:28 PST 2000


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.

-t

On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:51:24PM -0800, Aldo Cimino wrote:
> Using the standard ftp program, is there a way to page the screen?  For
> instance, if I'm listing a _huge_ directory, is there a command which
> provides an equivalent function to less or more, since neither of which
> seem to function in ftp?
> 
> I've checked the ftp man page, as well as Linux in a Nutshell.  If the
> answer is in either of these sources, it has escaped me.



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