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From: cristy@eplrx7.uucp (John Cristy)
Newsgroups: comp.archives
Subject: [perl] Re: Non-interactive ftp
Message-ID: <1991May17.045120.15743@ox.com>
Date: 17 May 91 04:51:20 GMT
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Archive-name: ftp/client/xtp/1991-05-15
Archive: export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z [18.30.0.238]
Original-posting-by: cristy@eplrx7.uucp (John Cristy)
Original-subject: Re: Non-interactive ftp
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In article <1991May15.005136.20447@eng.umd.edu> ziegast@eng.umd.edu (Eric W. Ziegast) writes:
>
>Do you suppose someone could create a program to sign on as ftp and
>recursively go through some specified directory and transfer the
>whole thing in one non-interactive command?
>

Fetch contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z on export.lcs.mit.edu.  You will find
XTP in the ImageMagick/xtp directory.

DESCRIPTION
     Xtp is a utility for retrieving, listing, or printing files
     from a remote network site, or sending files to a remote
     network site.  Xtp performs most of the same functions as
     the ftp program, but does not require any interactive
     commands.  You simply specify the file transfer task on the
     command line and xtp performs the task automatically.
 
EXAMPLES
     To retrieve file display.tar.Z from host wizard.dupont.com,
     use:
 
          xtp -binary -retrieve display.tar.Z wizard.dupont.com
 
     To retrieve all the files from directory public/documents
     from host wizard.dupont.com, use:
 
          xtp -binary -retrieve documents/ wizard.dupont.com public

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