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From: palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu (David Palmer)
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Subject: Re: need comments on MacExpress, Programmer's Extender
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Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 14:38:38 EDT
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In article <3590@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> maiden@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (VLSI Layout Project) writes:
>
>Generally to use wildcards such as '*' in ftp, use 'mget' instead
>of 'get'.  'mget' (multiple get) will prompt you for confirmation
>before each get it performs.  I'm not certain if 'mget' is available
>on every version of ftp.

Also, if you don't want to confirm each file individually, some ftp's
have the command line option '-i' (for interactive) which prevents
prompting on each file.


		David Palmer
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