[CALUG] offsite for file access

[Chuck Frain]

After just highlighting the desired text in Putty, go to your local text
editor and try pasting it there. That would be the simplest solution I
believe.

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 10:57 AM Walt Smith <waltechmail at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> hi,
>
> I have an offsite unix account, assume telnet access, using putty.
>
> I want to use it to download a file ( via http)  and store it.
> Right now, a long link to that file to be downloaded
> is sent to my offsite unix is in an email.
> The link is long, so I need copy/paste.
>
> However, my *nix know how editing text between apps
> is lost.
>
> At that site,  I have pine available, lynx, links.
> In pine , I managed to export the email text body
> containing only the link  (I think ).
>
> would:
> lynx < myfilelink
> be a way to download the link ?
>
> or
>
> wget > myfilelink ?  or a pipe ??
>
> ( to avoid actually typing the link )
>
> Is there an easier way to do this?
> I seem to be unable to take the short route and
> simply copy into a OS buffer  ( ^C ) the text
> inside the pine email body.
>
>
> suggestion ?
>
> thx,
>
> Walt . . .
>
> I want to do that by telnetting or ssh .
>
>
>
> Tools available there are pine, lynx, links
>
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> Justice Douglas re: The Pentagon Papers )
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