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From: Seppo Kallio <kallio@cc.jyu.fi>
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On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Doug White wrote:

> No.  If you use FTP, you can use mget to fetch the entire directory. 

If you want to download everything from directory tree FreeBSD-2.1-RELEASE
use the command get FreeBSD-2.1-RELEASE.tar

It will push everything in one tar file and transfer it to you.

mget does not create the subdirectories.

Seppo