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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 1997 01:47:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kkenn@bns.com.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Piping ftp to stdout
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970331014642.397W-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199703310802.RAA02124@topdown.bns.com.au>

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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




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