Sudhakar Chandra saw fit to inform LI that:
>john J K proclaimed:
>> I was trying to access another Linux machine using FTP ,
>> while I try to download directories it says " not a plain text
>> file" while I can download files, any settings to be done more
>
>Plain old FTP does not let you download directories and their contents
>recursively. You need 'ncftp'. Once ncftp is installed (left as an
>exercise to the reader), you can read the help on 'get'. get has an option
>to recursively download.
wget -r -l=0 :)
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