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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:26:14 +0200 (IST)
From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To: dreamweaver <ruan@floodland.ml.org>
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Subject: Re: FTP program
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On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, dreamweaver wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Do any of you perhaps know of a ftp program that will compile under 
> 2.2.2-RELEASE, which also supports a proxy server and a firewall?
> At the moment Netscape's basically the only thing that can get 
> through our firewall, and downloading a group of files can get very
> tedious...

What about fetch(1)?

> 
> Getting sub-dirs also would be nice.

If you download large hierarchies (either FTP or HTTP), you may also want 
to take a look at wget (in the ports collection), which supports proxies.

> Thanx,
> 
> Ruan
> 
> 
> 
Nadav