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keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:
>
> I also telnet to get my mail from a Unix-type server.  
> I suppose I could copy anything I wanted to save on my 
> home computer to my internet directory, wget, and then 
> delete it, but that seems a bit time-consuming.

If you are talking about text, there are several ways to
get text saved locally.  You could try using 'script' 
(although that will probably give you lots of text that
you don't want).  Or you could use a mouse to cut/paste 
blocks of text from a remote display to a local one.

> I also ran into the problem of no ftp in BL2.  The ftp 
> for Slackware 7.1 is part of a large package of things 
> I could see no use for 

I'm sure you'll have a use for some of them in the future.

> Perhaps Steven could post just the actual file(s) needed for ftp?

I haven't tried it, but probably the only file you need 
is the ftp executable.  You can extract if from the package 
like this: 
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tar -zxvf  /slakware/n6/tcpip1.tgz  bin/ftp
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Cheers,
Steven