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From: John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>
To: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@pmade.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: getting a directory with ftp
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It's an ftpd function.  Some are able to 

get <directory>.tar

and automagically tar the directory up and send it.  The other option is
use mget in your client.  This is strictly within the client--mget will
ask the ftpd if its able to do some magic and if it's not, it'll just do
repeated gets...HTH and have a good millennium...

On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Tim McMillen wrote:

> 
> 
> Thank you very much.  That worked perfectly.  I take it the regular ftp
> utility has no function to retrieve a directory?  
> 
> 						Tim
> 
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Peter Jones wrote:
> 
> > I recommend installing lftp, it is in the ports collection and has
> > a lot of cool features, one of which is the 'mirror' feature that
> > allows you to recursivly 'get' a directory.
> > 
> > cd /usr/ports/ftp/lftp ; make install
> > lftp username@host
> > cd /path/to/home
> > lcd /where/to/put/it/local
> > mirror
> > 
> > On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Tim McMillen wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi, I'm trying to ftp my home directory from my university AFS space back
> > > to my FreeBSD box for backup.  But I can't use get to get my home
> > > directory.  I read the ftp man page, but there doesn't seem to be anything
> > > about this.  When I try I get the error
> > > ftp> get timcm
> > > local: timcm remote: timcm
> > > 227 Entering Passive Mode (141,211,2,144,238,33)
> > > 550 timcm: not a plain file.
> > > 
> > > I'm assuming this is because it is a directory.  Help would be appreciated
> > > 
> > > 						Tim
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > 
> > -- 
> > .......................................................................
> > : Peter Jones                        :      Unix Geek - Four Wheeling :
> > : pjones@pmade.org                   :     Code Writing - Jesus Freak :
> > :....................................:................................:
> > :echo er|perl -0160 -pe ';$;=ord$/;s;^;"\U$/".chr($\;-11).chr$\;+4;e;':
> > :.....................................................................:
> > 
> 
> 
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