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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Piping ftp to stdout
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On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, 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.

Fetch can do this fine with the -o option.  Comes with FreeBSD 2.16 and
later.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major