wget "how do I do..."

[Craig A. Finseth]

I am trying to mirror an FTP site which has access control in that it
doesn't let you do a "dir" on the root (it returns an empty list).  In
other wods, if you manually do:

        ftp <site>
        username: ...
        password: ...
        dir

You get an empty list.  But if you do:

        cd <myDir>
        dir

You get your files.  Note that I've tried doing:

        wget ftp://...:...@<site>/<myDir>

and it still fails.  It appears that wget is getting the empty listing
and (not unreasonably) deciding that there is nothing there.

In essence, what I want to do insert a "cd <dir>" after login but
before wget tries to do anything else.

Is there an existing way to do this, or do I need to modify the code?

FWIW, it's a Windows server.

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