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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 03:51:36PM -0400, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> 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
[...]
> > 
> > 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.

Hrm. I was just going by the ncftp manual:

              The get command lets you retrieve entire  directory
              trees,  too.   Although  it  may not work with some
              remote systems,  you  can  try  ``get -R''  with  a
              directory  to  download  the directory and its con-
              tents.
 
I believe there was an RFC or I-D doc describing the extensions to the
ftp protocol to allow for this; maybe Greg Lundberg? It's been a while
since I paid much attention to ftp.

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