Re: ftp Question

[toddpw@ugcs.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)]

gachot@bonnet.enet.dec.com () writes:

>	Coudl someone tell me if it's possible to 
>	'mget' multiple directories (Files which are in each
>	directory) automatically. without going through
>	each directories and do 'mget *'.

Not in general. The interface used by Berkely's FTP client (which almost
every unix system uses) did not have provisions for walking directory trees
recursively. The expectation was that you'd have accounts on both systems
and tar up everything and FTP the tar archive. This doesn't account for
anonymous FTP, of course, but nobody expected that to be as popular as it
was...

If there is a way to do it with the 'standard' FTP program, I'd love to hear
about it. I've often wanted such a capability myself, but I've never found it
in the help or the man pages.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ ugcs.caltech.edu