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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!oleane!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!in2p3.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!ubnsrv.unisource.ch!news From: Robin Stephenson <robin@coretec.ch> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: downloading file from shell session? Date: 12 Feb 1996 13:05:32 +0100 Organization: Coretec GmbH Lines: 16 Sender: rss@babylon.coretec.ch Message-ID: <x7hgwwvjeb.fsf@babylon.coretec.ch> References: <4fa9rp$d85@hideout.emanon.net> Reply-To: robin@coretec.ch NNTP-Posting-Host: babylon.coretec.ch In-reply-to: dew@recom.com's message of 7 Feb 1996 13:35:53 GMT To: dew@recom.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.13 dew@recom.com wrote: | during a telnet session to freebsd is there a command to download a file from host to local pc just | running a shell session? | | maybe qmodem or zmodem? One idea might be to uuencode the file (or use PGP - `a better uuencode htan uuencode' according to the manual), cat it to screen, capture it in a screen log and then decode it on the local machine. Not pretty, and certainly not ideal for big files, but it's sometimes a useful trick. -- -- Robin Stephenson - send email with subject `send pgp key' for pgp key Keep Away From Children