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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:
>
> Can I somehow list the directory contents with wget like I could with
> regular ftp, instead of telnetting or ssh'ing there first and using ls?

No, but you should be able to use the same URL (make sure that it has
a username, password, and it refers to a directory) in links to get a
directory listing.

> I could also telnet there and move the file of interest to my web
> directory and download with links from there.  Can I use links to download
> from my home directory, with username and password as with wget?  I tried
> to 'g' to ftp.freeshell.org/arpa/gm/k/keesan - file not found.

Is that exactly what you entered? Try:

ftp://keesan:password AT ftp.freeshell.org/arpa/gm/k/keesan/

It works for me.

David