02-28-2002
The extra characters are for formatting. For plain text, try doing this:
man ls | col -b > manls.txt
You may also want to run unix2dos (also known as ux2dos, and other variants).
I believe it will simply add a ctrl+M at the end of each line, so you should be able to use sed if you don't have unix2dos installed.
man ls | col -b | sed 's/$/^M/g' > manls.txt
Of course, if you do use the ASCII option to ftp, as suggested above, you wouldn't really need unix2dos at all, since it's handled by the ftp client.
Hope this answers you questions.
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ftp_geturl
ftp::geturl(3tcl) ftp client ftp::geturl(3tcl)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
NAME
ftp::geturl - Uri handler for ftp urls
SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.2
package require ftp::geturl ?0.2.1?
::ftp::geturl url
_________________________________________________________________
DESCRIPTION
This package provides a command which wraps around the client side of the ftp protocol provided by package ftp to allow the retrieval of
urls using the ftp schema.
API
::ftp::geturl url
This command can be used by the generic command ::uri::geturl (See package uri) to retrieve the contents of ftp urls. Internally it
uses the commands of the package ftp to fulfill the request.
The contents of a ftp url are defined as follows:
file The contents of the specified file itself.
directory
A listing of the contents of the directory in key value notation where the file name is the key and its attributes the asso-
ciated value.
link The attributes of the link, including the path it refers to.
BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. Please report such in the category ftp of
the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883]. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for
either package and/or documentation.
SEE ALSO
ftpd, mime, pop3, smtp
KEYWORDS
ftp, internet, net, rfc 959
CATEGORY
Networking
ftp 0.2.1 ftp::geturl(3tcl)