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From: dbrown@apple.com (David Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: FTP transfer of tree structures
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Date: 31 Jan 91 22:32:11 GMT
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In article <9101291607.aa05830@louie.udel.edu> SCEF0003@WSUVM1.CSC.WSU.EDU 
("James N. Petersen") writes:
> Is there any way to have FTP transfer a tree structure and still retain
> the tree structure on the receiving end.

Two methods come to mind, neither of which is automatic or foolproof.

1) If you have enough disk space and compatible archiving utilities on 
both machines (e.g. tar, cpio, arc, stuffit, etc) create an archive, 
transfer (be sure to specify binary transfer), and unarchive.  Be careful 
about line feed translations, etc.  If you don't have enough disk space 
but do have some sort of remote execution facility (like rsh or rexec), 
you may be able to pipe the output of the "create archive" to the remote 
execution of the "extract archive" running on the remote machine.

2) Use find or equivalent command (e.g. from the MKS Toolkit) to create a 
list of directories in the tree; use sed or manually edit to make this 
into a batch file of mkdir's; use find again to create a list of files to 
transfer and transform this into a list of files to transfer which can be 
fed to ftp.

David Brown    415-649-4000
Orion Network Systems
 (a subsidiary of Apple Computer)
1995 University Ave
Suite 350
Berkeley CA 94704