From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 15 19:35:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07DC237B401 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:35:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.radzinschi.com (pcp01838331pcs.owngsm01.md.comcast.net [68.32.62.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F0343E9C for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:35:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marco@radzinschi.com) Received: from localhost (marco@localhost.radzinschi.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.radzinschi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9G2Zchj007769; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 22:35:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marco@radzinschi.com) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 22:35:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Marco Radzinschi To: harsha godavari Cc: Subject: Re: multiple_file_downloading In-Reply-To: <3DACBBED.C020992E@shaw.ca> Message-ID: <20021015223412.Q7763-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Use ncftp (in the ports) to download an entire directory. You can use the -R switch with get, as in "get -R " to fetch a directory and everything in it. If you want to download it from Windows, you can use an ftp client like WS_FTP, which can be found on www.download.com. Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com AOL IM: CrackedBoy "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." -- Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil) On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, harsha godavari wrote: > I would like to try and install FreeBSD 2.11 on a i386 with 4MB RAM. > FreeBSD 2.11 is available from ftp://moe.2bsd.com/pub/2.11BSD. > > Unfortunatly, there are several hundred small files in this directory.At > present I am using Netscape and shift_clicking on each name is slow and > painful :-) . > > unfortunately I am unfamiliar with FTP :-( Can I use FTP to download > an entire directory (several hundred files[small]). There seem to be > several FTP programs. Any recommendations of a simple to use > ftp-program. Thanks. > > Regards > Harsha Godavari > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message