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From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com>
To: Brian William Francis Tobin XXIX <jebudas@plato.virgil.net>
Subject: Re: copying directories with ftp
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On 28-Jul-97 Brian William Francis Tobin XXIX wrote:
>
>Hello and Thank you.
>
>Is it possible to copy an entire directory when I use ftp?
>
>I tried mput -r (like cp -r) but it didn't work.

If you're running X, try ftptool.  You can just select a directory from the
remote listing and download it, with the exact same structure locally.
 
Cool.

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Conrad Sabatier
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