Re: file transfer via telnet

[whitnl73@juno.com]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 ichi@ihug.co.nz wrote:

> I year or two back, I remember reading about a way to transfer
> a file using telnet.  It think it involved redirection from one
> tty to another, but I don't remember the details.  I now find
> myself in a situation with telnet access, but no ftp (or anything
> else I could use to upload files).  Do any of you guys know the
> telnet method?
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
I think that was rsh, not telnet, and man rsh tells the rules for that,
in case you have rsh.

However, to downoad a file by telnet, capture stdout so:

telnet hostname | tee logfile
....
uuencode remotefile remotefile
exit
tr -d "r" < logfile | uudecode

Note remotefile is named twice in the uuencode: first is the name it is
to be uudecoded to, next is the input to uuencode (uou could use
redirection or a pipe instead, by default uuencode operates on stdin.

To upload, I guess you could use telnet's ! command, but how exactly
excapes me.

Lawson

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