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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: FTP directories
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Date: 29 Apr 91 20:30:50 GMT
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In article <3549@beguine.UUCP>, mpaf1216@med.unc.edu (Matthew Sean Pardo) writes:
|> Is there a way to FTP a directory or subdirectory
|> as opposed to just getting files?  

  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.

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