&Joerg.Walter; &Joerg.Walter.mail; MalcolmHunter

malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk

Conversion to British English 2002-06-23 1.1.1 Allows you to access another computer's files using a simple SSH shell account and standard &UNIX; utilities on the remote side. This way, no server software is needed and you gain access to that computer's files as if they were local (or on NFS, since it is slower than local access). It uses the same protocol as MidnightCommander's #sh VFS handler. Fish should work with any roughly POSIX compatible &UNIX; based remote computer. It uses the shell commands cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, cp, dd, env, expr, grep, ls, mkdir, mv, rm, rmdir, sed, and wc. Fish starts /bin/sh as its shell and expects it to be a Bourne shell (or compatible, like bash). If the sed and file commands are available, as well as a /etc/apache/magic file with &MIME; type signatures, these will be used to guess &MIME; types. If Perl is available on the remote machine, it will be used instead. Then only env and /bin/sh are needed. Using Perl has the additional benefit of being faster. Fish may even work on &Windows; machines, if tools like Cygwin are installed. All the above utilities must be in the system PATH, and the initial shell must be able to process the command echo FISH:;/bin/sh correctly.