FTP directories

[Don Libes]

In article <1991Apr29.203050.8621 at athena.mit.edu> jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>In article <3549 at beguine.UUCP>, mpaf1216 at med.unc.edu (Matthew Sean Pardo) writes:
>|> Is there a way to FTP a directory or subdirectory

>  No.  You can use "mget" to tell it to get multiple files in a directory, but
>there is no way to do recursive retrievals of a directory.

rftp (for "recursive ftp") is an expect script that ftps directories.
It comes with the expect distribution.  (Email "send pub/expect.shar.Z"
to library at cme.nist.gov or anonymous ftp same from durer.cme.nist.gov.)

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