From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 31 18: 3:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 336F537BF4F for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 18:03:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA07869; Wed, 31 May 2000 20:02:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000531131413.00a95cc0@mail.palaver.org> Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 20:02:49 -0500 (CDT) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: (Ryugen C. Fisher) Subject: Re: tar to ftp site Cc: ListServer FreeBSD Questions , Doug Poland Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 31-May-00 Ryugen C. Fisher wrote: > whilst on the subject, and to expose my ignorance once again... > > I am trying to transfer an entire directory structure from one machine to > another.. > my access is limited to telnet and ftp... mget will get the files, but > not the directories and it will take a LONG time to go into each directory > by cd, etc.. > > Is there a shortcut to solving this problem? Yes! Install wget from the ports collection. It will do exactly what you need. -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message