From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 30 07:50:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA09997 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 07:50:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from second.dialup.access.net (lsmarso.dialup.access.net [166.84.254.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA09988 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 07:50:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from larry@marso.com) Received: (from larry@localhost) by second.dialup.access.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) id KAA12522; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:47:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from larry) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:47:32 -0500 From: "Larry S. Marso" To: Kris Kirby , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: recommended ftp client <=> NT file server Message-ID: <19981130104731.U7259@marso.com> References: <19981129015929.F7259@marso.com> <36619684.3805C7D6@airnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.13i In-Reply-To: <36619684.3805C7D6@airnet.net>; from Kris Kirby on Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 12:46:28PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 12:46:28PM -0600, Kris Kirby wrote: > Larry S. Marso wrote: > > > > Any suggested clients or downloading strategies? > > ftp(1) and lots of quotes "". Create a local tree that looks like the > one you want. Then connect with ftp, set the type to binary (just type > in "binary"), and turn the interactive prompting off (type "prompt"). > Then mget the tree with wildcards. It will get everything it has a > directory for. To make a directory with a space: % mkdir "This has a > space". Admittedly, this is the manual approach to mirroring. What you suggest would work, however it is administratively impossible manually to recreate the convoluted directory structure on the other server. Any other thoughts? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message