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From: jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: FTP directories
Message-ID: <1991May10.065919.3216@jadpc.cts.com>
Date: 10 May 91 06:59:19 GMT
References: <3549@beguine.UUCP> <1991Apr29.203050.8621@athena.mit.edu> <2399@muffin.cme.nist.gov>
Organization: Network Engineering Technologies, San Diego, CA.
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In article <2399@muffin.cme.nist.gov> libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes) writes:
>In article <1991Apr29.203050.8621@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>>In article <3549@beguine.UUCP>, mpaf1216@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@cme.nist.gov or anonymous ftp same from durer.cme.nist.gov.)
>
>Don Libes          libes@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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