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To: Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>
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Subject: Re: Fetch/wget/ftp: How to do a recursive ftp-get?
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Personally, for recursive gets - I love yafc. It rocks.

I also like the interface.. and I could be wrong but I believe it supports
usage of the ftp:// directives.


On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Leif Neland wrote:

> 
> 
> > > BTW.. although risking to be off-topic by miles, I always liked the way
> > > how NetBSD's ftp(1) (since 1.4 or so) implemented http and ftp URL
> > > fetching and thus eliminated the need for a fetch(1) command.
> > > Couldn't the FreeBSD ftp(1) be enhanced that way, [ObTopic, slime slime]
> > > to use fetch(3) for that purpose?
> > 
> > This is where a useful tool like wget comes into play.  Wget can be pretty
> > much used as an automated replacement for fetch, or FTP URL retrieval.  Can
> > also be plugged into the whole ports system so that it can retrieve the
> > ports data packages.
> > 
> 
> But which tool can do a command-line, recursive ftp-get? wget can't,
> because it does not create subdirs below the one specified, i.e. if I do
> a wget -r ftp://webmaster:password@webserver.my.dom/htdocs/tree, it will
> create the dir webserver.my.dom/htdocs/tree, but not any subdomains to
> that.
> 
> Leif
> 
> 
> 
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