VanLUG Email Archive
Alan Hodgson (ahodgson@simkin.com)
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:20:11 -0800
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 10:59:16PM -0800, Ian Dobson wrote:
> How can I ftp a complete subdirectory structure including Links
> from an ftp site?
>
> I got as far as ftp -i and mget * but it doesn't do subdirs and links..
ncftp's get -R does both subdir's and links. It also does FTP resume, handles
proxy servers and supports PASV mode to go through firewalls (and works over
ssh's port forwarding). In short, it's Great! ;)
For X, FileRunner's pretty good, it does recursive copies over FTP, FTP resume,
batch FTP, etc. It doesn't seem to handle symlinks over FTP, though, have
to send the author a note when I get a sec ...
-- Linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste
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