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Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 21:18:49 -0500
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Subject: Re: FTP Command
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Stephen, ah thanks... I was having trouble with the 'mget mput' commands.

At 09:15 PM 9.5.2001 -0500, Stephen Hilton wrote:
>> Using FTP command line, what are the commands to GET and PUT whole
>> directories and subdirectories within...??? Nothing (obvious to me)
>> in the 'man' covers this and I haven't run across it anywhere else
>> yet.... thanks for any tips...!
>
>I would install the ncftp3 port or package on your system for this kind of
>task. I use ncftp3 quite a bit and am very pleased with its operation.
>
>With ncftp installed and connected to the site you want to download a
>sub-directory called "srcfiles" from:
>
>ncftp> mget -R srcfiles
>
>The -R argument tells the ncftp file transfer to act recursively
>
>>From the FreeBSD 4.3 FTP man page:
>Note: mget and mput are not meant to transfer entire directory subtrees of
>files.  That can be done by transferring a tar(1) archive of the subtree (in
>binary mode).
>
>Regards,
>
>Stephen Hilton
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Jack L. Stone,
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