open remote file locally?

[Wade Preston Shearer]

Is it possible to open a file on remote server as if it were local? For example, you can SSH into a different box and then read the contents of a file with vi, but is there a way view the file in one step without SSH-ing into the remote box first? Can this be done with tunneling?

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