[comp.sys.mac.misc] reading README files

shimniok@.cs.arizona.edu (Michael Edward Shimniok) (05/10/90)

> i'll admit i'm a UNIX rookie.  i have yet to find an =ftp= command that'll
> let me read a =README= file.  i find it annoying to transfer one of these
> and then quit to have to read it.  the other alternative is to transfer
> more than one, in which case they either get clobbered or a forget where
> they came from in the first place.

when ftping the file 00README or whatever, give it the filename
/dev/tty  to view the file on the screen.....

Hope that helps...

Belgarion using

shimniok@cs.arizona.edu