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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 1997 12:39:59 +0300
From:      Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kkenn@bns.com.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Piping ftp to stdout
Message-ID:  <333F866F.71B9@barcode.co.il>
References:  <199703310802.RAA02124@topdown.bns.com.au>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> Is there some ftp-like utility which I ca use to pipe the retrieveddata
> of a file directly to stdout (ie through gzip, etc) without needing to
> save it on disk first then wait until it's finished? I know some ftp
> servers support server-side gzipping, but not all, and the are other
> utilities which would also be useful to use in place of it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kris
> 
> || ,-./\ Kris Kennaway || "Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead.   ||
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I think fetch will do that, as will wget and "lynx -dump -source" (both
are in the ports somewhere). Look at their man pages.

Nadav



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