Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!decwrl!stanford.edu!agate!agate!adrianho From: adrianho@barkley.berkeley.edu (Adrian J Ho) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: FTP directories Message-ID: Date: 10 May 91 21:14:24 GMT References: <3549@beguine.UUCP> <1991Apr29.203050.8621@athena.mit.edu> <2399@muffin.cme.nist.gov> <1991May10.065919.3216@jadpc.cts.com> Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Charlie Root) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com's message of 10 May 91 06: 59:19 GMT In article <1991May10.065919.3216@jadpc.cts.com> jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch) writes: >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. Yeah, but will it do the same for subdirectory tree >1 level deep? None of the ftp's I've seen will do that; if yours does, more power to you. Some sites (our local scam.berkeley.edu, for instance) have set up modified ftpd's which automatically tar and feather subdirectories that you try to ftp. This, of course, depends on the site concerned. The only way I know of that will work for ALL sites (aside from grabbing the BSD ftp source and tinkering around with that) is the solution Don proposed (ie. the rftp/expect combo). Anyone have any better solutions?