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From: brunner@practic.UUCP (Thomas Eric Brunner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FTPing (answer)
Summary: compressed time-sorted recursive list in ~ftp/pub (usually)
Message-ID: <41979@practic.UUCP>
Date: 28 Oct 89 22:54:58 GMT
References: <157@salt.UUCP>
Reply-To: brunner@practic.UUCP (Thomas Eric Brunner)
Organization: Practical Computing Inc., Sunnyvale
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In article <157@salt.UUCP> snow@salt.UUCP (John Snow) writes:

>              According to our extensive documentation :-), we do
>have a type of ftp capability.  All you have to do is issue the
>following incantation:
>
>uucp -r uunet\!/usr/spool/ftp/<filepath> /usr/spool/uucppublic
>
>and sit back and wait for the magic to happen.  Of course you do have
>to specify a file in <filepath>.  Now if I wanted to get the file that
>lists all the other available files from both summex and apple.com
>(which is what I want to do), what would I put in place of <filepath>
>to cause this wonderous thing to happen?

Pathnames of files "available" for either anonymous ftp or public uucp
with read (and occasionally write) and execute (search) permissions
on the remote host are frequently found a file "ls-lR" and "ls-tlR".
Sites with large public spool areas often have a compressed version
of the files as well, named with a ".Z" suffix. These are typically
two-thirds smaller and cost less to retrieve.

Look in any of the following places:

	/usr/spool/uucp
	/usr/spool/uucp/uucppublic
	/usr/spool/ftp
	/usr/spool/ftp/pub

Eric