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From: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
To: Ken Marsh <root@140.142.178.53>
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Subject: Re: how to I ftp a directory tree?
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On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Ken Marsh wrote:

> I know that tar must be used with ftp to get a port, for instance.
> 
> What is the syntax for such a command?

  ncftp2 (and maybe even v. 1) supports recursive get.
                 'get -R <directory-name>'

- Justin J. Ashworth
-- CS Student - Montana State University
--- Chair, Association for Computing Machinery - MSU
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