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Subject: Re: ncftp ftp://site/dir/foo.tar.gz
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=)
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 * Ncftp has problems with  wu-ftpd if you try to get a directory foo/ as
 * foo.tar.gz. 

Well, the question is: how easy is this to fix?  Actually blindly
getting /path1/path2/dir.tar.gz is not a very good idea, as it will
include all the pathnames in the tar file.

Do you think we can change ncftp to issue a CWD command first?
Andrew, are you there? :)

Satoshi

P.S. Another solution is to do a "(echo $dir; echo get $file) | ncftp
     -N $site" sort of thing in bsd.port.mk, but I'm not sure if we
     want to make it this complicated....