FTP directories

[Jim Deitch]

In article <2399 at muffin.cme.nist.gov> libes at cme.nist.gov (Don Libes) writes:
>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.)
>
>Don Libes          libes at cme.nist.gov      ...!uunet!cme-durer!libes

The mget in my ISC ftp will recursivley get directories, if they exist
on the target machine already.  If I want a directory tree all I do is
get the layout and then go to shell, make the directories, go to the
top of the tree, and do my mget.

Jim
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