Not sure how to interpret "or something like that," but I suppose you mean
it to exclude options such as NFS and Samba. If you have nothing but telnet
to work with, it is pretty much an insurmountable problem ... unless the
files you want to copy happen to be text files.
In that case, start a telnet session, open the file on the remote host, and
use your local cut-&-paste utility to copy it a screenful at a time. (How to
do this depends on what OS your local machine uses and, if Linux, whether
you run from the command line or use X.)
BTW, you don't have to set up an ftp server on *your* machine ... only one
host needs the server, and that can be the remote system. You just need to
run the ftp client.
One last thought ... does anyone remember if kermit ever came in a version
that will run over telnet? I never used it that way, but I always had ftp
available. And am I right in remembering that zmodem and the like run only
over modem/shell connections?
At 05:12 PM 4/14/99 +0200, Einar Sundgren wrote [abridged]:
>I have telnet access to a foreing host computer and want to copy files from
>that host to my local machine without setting up a ftp server or something like
>that. man cp or man telnet has nothing on the subject and i can�t figure out
>any other places to look.
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