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On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Yeah, BL is really amazing! I wanted vfat support so that I could copy over 
> install files for Windows 98 actually. I tried to use smbclient to connect to 
> another machine on my network but it seemed over my head when I was reading 
> the tutorials on the internet.
>
> So what I ended up doing was setting up an ftp server... I can access the 
> files individually through wget on the other machine with the installation 
> files... but that's the problem. The wget command doesn't have a -r recursive 
> option to download all of the files on the ftp server... I remember wget 
> having this option (maybe on another distro?)

> Long story short, how can I download folders recursively using wget? If 
> I cannot do that, what's the alternative?

Get the full wget instead of the small busybox model.

Or
cp -a /windows/* /mnt  (copies all subdirectories and hidden files)

Useful between two drives/partitions in one computer or network file 
system.

Over a network (serial, parallel/plip, ethernet) use Steven's send/receive 
scripts - see BL archives. 
Sindi
> Thanks!KF