e118-ak@euler.uucp (e118 student) (04/14/89)
I have recently been using anonymous ftp to download files from the fine folks at sumex-aim.stanford.edu, specifically the info-mac part. Everything's wonderful, but there's a lot of good stuff there. What I would *like* to do is to port across a directory listing onto my disk so I could peruse it at my leisure without running up connect time across netland. On my own machine, I would just say "ls -s -C" to get name and filesize (in K) in multi-column mode. However, when I try this on the ftp connection, sumex thinks that "-s" is the file I want listed and "-C" is the localfile in which I want to store the output. (They have a file listing the contents, but it is full of info I don't need -- date of modification, size in bytes, etc. -- and is thus several hundred K itself). Can I get the ftp machine to recognize options on the "ls" or "mls" command? If I can get it to give me size in K, is there a unix command I can use locally afterwards to intelligently multi-column it? Please e-mail any helpful tips. Thanks in advance, -- Linc Madison = e118-ak@euler.berkeley.edu