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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> sindi keesan wrote:
> > I don't think there is any ftp download program
>
> wget
>
> links also does ftp downloads

I shift alot of data around on my little LAN using ftp, so I'd like to see 
a fuller ftp in BL, too.  But maybe it's owing to ignorance that I miss 
it?  I've used wget for dwonloading large files (isos) by both ftp and 
http on the web and it works well.  But at home, I sometimes want to copy 
not just a file, but a whole directory.  I was trying to puzzle out how to 
do that using BL's wget today, however, and couldn't.  And, unfortunately 
the directory has a really long and complex name, which also would make 
using wget (if BL's will even download whole directories) kind of a pain. 
In full wget the -r switch is supposed to be for recursive downloading, 
which sounds like what I'd need to get a whole directory.  But BL's wget 
doesn't want to accept the -r switch.  Any pointers on this?  Links won't 
interact with my ftp server here (seems to fail with many on the 'net, 
too), either.

James