From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 01:38:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA05515 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 01:38:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (root@seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA05510 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 01:38:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA19352 for freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 01:38:34 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199608060838.BAA19352@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: how to I ftp a directory tree? To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD questions) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 01:38:33 -0700 (MST) In-Reply-To: from "Ken Marsh" at Aug 6, 96 01:03:56 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > NOTE: From durang@u.washington.edu (not the above - sorry for the inconv.) > I read the list, so you needn't reply directly... > > The ftp site I had in mind is ftp.freebsd.org, and it seems they don't > support the "get directory.tar" command syntax. Sorry, but I just ftp'd a directory less than 10 seconds ago using this technique. Note that "directory" must be within the *current* directory -- you can't just specify an arbitrary path to one (I think?) For example, I did: cd pub/FreeBSD get docs.tar and all went well... You can also do get docs.tar.gz to get the tarball sent to you gzip'ed... > is there another way? for now I'm using mget, but the man page > specifically says that mget is not how it's done.... --don