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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: [BusyBox] Copy files via Telnet, or use FTP
From:       Dan Kegel <dank () kegel ! com>
Date:       2002-12-31 12:07:03
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Jeff Angielski wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 December 2002 01:56 pm, Jeff Angielski wrote:
> 
>>On Tuesday 31 December 2002 03:24 am, Jeff (Tiscali) wrote:
>>
>>>Hello All
>>>Excuse my lack of experience of BusyBox and Linux in asking.
>>>I have just installed Busybox on an old P200 machine, and everything
>>>works fine, but I have a couple of questions, I can open a Telnet
>>>session to my P200 machine, can I copy files remotely via Telnet or do I
>>>have to install an FTP server on my Busybox system? if so which one?
>>
>>A simple answer is to just telnet to your BusyBox target machine, and then
>>do a wget or ftpget, transferring the files from your host machine to your
>>BusyBox machine.
> 
> 
> Of course this means your host machine needs to have an FTP server.  But if 
> you are using one of the standard Linux distro's it is a piece of cake to get 
> that working.

For what it's worth, I run betaftpd on my busybox system.
It's small and fast.  Might be a pain to get working, I dunno.

Also, busybox comes with a small version of wget, so maybe
he's all set already...
- Dan


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Dan Kegel
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