From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 29 10:49:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22359 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 10:49:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ninbox.ml.org (hsv1-12.airnet.net [207.242.81.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22340 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 10:49:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ninbox.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA09941; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 12:46:33 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <36619684.3805C7D6@airnet.net> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 12:46:28 -0600 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Absolutely None! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Larry S. Marso" CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: recommended ftp client <=> NT file server References: <19981129015929.F7259@marso.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Larry S. Marso wrote: > > I'm having to interface with an NT file server, which displays file names > containing spaces. Some of the popular ftp clients, including ncftp in the > #2 and #3 series, and the ftp client of filerunner, get confused, > particularly when trying to get whole directories. The problem often seems > to be reading and creating an appropriate duplicate directory on the local > machine. > > Any suggested clients or downloading strategies? ftp(1) and lots of quotes "". Create a local tree that looks like the one you want. Then connect with ftp, set the type to binary (just type in "binary"), and turn the interactive prompting off (type "prompt"). Then mget the tree with wildcards. It will get everything it has a directory for. To make a directory with a space: % mkdir "This has a space". Admittedly, this is the manual approach to mirroring. -- Kris Kirby UAH Mail UAH CS Home WWW ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message