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[Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp AT pobox.com>]

Hmm, it appears something about my PGP signature caused my previous
message to be eaten by the server.  Here's what I said, but you can't be
sure it's from me now.  :-)

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 15:19, Steven Champeon wrote:
> on Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 03:17:12PM -0400, machett AT ibiblio.org wrote:
> > 
> > will ftp (command line) transfer directories?  say, if I entered
> > mget filename
> > or
> > mput filename
> > but filename was a directory instead of a file, or if I entered
> > mget *
> > or
> > mput *
> > could I expect directories to be transferred...???
> 
> If you're using ncftp, and the remote server supports it, yes.

The remote server doesn't need to "support" anything, as ncftp just does
directory listings and recurses in the client.

> ncftp> get -R somedir

Also, on Linux/UNIX the 'lftp' client will support recursive directory
retrieval, as will programs like 'wget'.  But the standard program
called 'ftp' will not.

Most graphical Windows FTP clients like WS_FTP or CuteFTP should support
recursive directory retrieval.  Again that is all handled by the client
though; it will work with any remote server.

--Jeremy


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