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On Thu, 11 Apr 96, Mike Meyer typed the following line(s):

> > > Is there a way to set up Aweb to do FTP downloading?
> > In the Aweb settings, enter the following:
> Ok, that shows how to make it download. Never had a problem with that.

Well, that is what he asked, (check above) so that's what I answered.

> How about getting AWeb to use FTP to DISPLAY text? I.e., so I read
> (for instance) the url
> ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/www.python.org/index.html (I know I can get
> to that one via an http: URL, but it was the easy example to find!)

Now that is a different one.Hmmm, you could use the ncftp -m option
but that would mean all files get displayed. Hmmm, how about some
little tool that the output of ncftp can be piped into and that
checks if it's binary of plain text. Then saves the binary and
shows the text. Should not be that difficult using whatis.library.
When I have some more time, I'll look into it. 

Take care
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