Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <390883A8.C734C4EF@veritas.com> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:15:04 -0700 From: Bob McGowan Organization: VERITAS Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Stanton CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Anyone compiled ncftp 3.0.1 with paging capabilities? References: <000e01bfb06a$1b393860$524b2080@berkeley.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Richard Stanton wrote: > > I suppose this is vaguely cygwin related... > > I've downloaded the latest (compiled) version of ncftp from www.ncftp.com, > but it seems to be lacking the program's best feature, the ability to do > paged directory listings. The commands pdir and pls, mentioned in the > documentation, don't seem to be working (or even present) in the actual > compiled program. > > Has anyone compiled ncftp 3.0.1 and got these features working? > Alternatively, am I just missing something obvious? > > Thanks. > Richard, I have 3.0.1 compiled and installed. Check the man page for ncftp for the command 'set' and the variable 'pager'. There is a startup file that ncftp uses where you can put new (or modify existing) settings. The problem is the default pager is set to '/usr/local/bin/more' and this must be changed. -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software rmcgowan@veritas.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com