It doesn't have anything to do with the FTP protocol per se... just look at
the recursion commands available in NcFTP.
It's perfectly capable of mirroring an entire directory tree... you can also
use WGET (my preferred tool) for this purpose.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 1999 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: tar/download.
> Probably not. Not unless they've added a new capability to the ftp protocol.
> You can download all files in a *single* directory with "mget *" but I know
> of no way to do a recursive call to get stuff from subdirectories.
>
> At 03:30 PM 5/25/99 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Hello,
> > Is it possible for me to go to an ftp sight, using ncftp, then to a
> >specific subdirectory and do some command whereby all subdirectories
> >under that would be downloaded to my machine?
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