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<article lang="&language;" id="fish">
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<title
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>fish</title>
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<articleinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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<author
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>&Joerg.Walter; &Joerg.Walter.mail;</author>
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<othercredit role="translator"
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><firstname
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>Malcolm</firstname
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><surname
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>Hunter</surname
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><affiliation
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><address
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><email
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>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
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></address
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></affiliation
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><contrib
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>Conversion to British English</contrib
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></othercredit
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>
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</authorgroup>
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<date
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>2002-06-23</date>
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<releaseinfo
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>1.1.1</releaseinfo>
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</articleinfo>
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<para
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>Allows you to access another computer's files using a simple <acronym
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>SSH</acronym
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> 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 <acronym
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>NFS</acronym
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>, since it is slower than local access). It uses the same protocol as <application
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>MidnightCommander</application
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>'s #sh <acronym
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>VFS</acronym
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> handler.</para>
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<para
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>Fish should work with any roughly <acronym
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>POSIX</acronym
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> compatible &UNIX; based remote computer. It uses the shell commands <command
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>cat</command
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>, <command
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>chgrp</command
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>, <command
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>chmod</command
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>, <command
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>chown</command
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>, <command
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>cp</command
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>, <command
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>dd</command
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>, <command
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>env</command
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>, <command
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>expr</command
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>, <command
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>grep</command
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>, <command
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>ls</command
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>, <command
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>mkdir</command
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>, <command
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>mv</command
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>, <command
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>rm</command
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>, <command
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>rmdir</command
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>, <command
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>sed</command
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>, and <command
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>wc</command
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>. Fish starts <command
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>/bin/sh</command
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> as its shell and expects it to be a Bourne shell (or compatible, like <command
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>bash</command
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>). If the <command
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>sed</command
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> and <command
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>file</command
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> commands are available, as well as a <filename
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>/etc/apache/magic</filename
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> file with &MIME; type signatures, these will be used to guess &MIME; types. </para>
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<para
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>If <application
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>Perl</application
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> is available on the remote machine, it will be used instead. Then only <command
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>env</command
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> and <command
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>/bin/sh</command
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> are needed. Using <application
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>Perl</application
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> has the additional benefit of being faster.</para>
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<para
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>Fish may even work on &Windows; machines, if tools like <application
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>Cygwin</application
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> are installed. All the above utilities must be in the system <envar
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>PATH</envar
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>, and the initial shell must be able to process the command <command
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>echo FISH:;/bin/sh</command
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> correctly.</para>
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</article>
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