From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 15 19: 5:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A8137B401 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:05:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.20.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BB7E43E8A for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:05:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au) Received: from elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au (elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.18.41]) by ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9G25niB005500; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:05:49 +1000 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jacob Rhoden Organization: University of Melbourne To: harsha godavari Subject: Re: multiple_file_downloading Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:05:49 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <3DACBBED.C020992E@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <3DACBBED.C020992E@shaw.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200210161205.49149.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:07, harsha godavari wrote: > FreeBSD 2.11 is available from ftp://moe.2bsd.com/pub/2.11BSD. > Unfortunatly, there are several hundred small files in this directory.A= t > present I am using Netscape and shift_clicking on each name is slow and > painful :-) . Based on the above information, from a command prompt interface in either= =20 windows, or FreeBSD, go into the directory you want the files in (using t= he=20 cd command) then type the following: ftp moe.2bsd.com anonymous myemail@somedomain.com cd /pub/2.11BSD/ mget * yy..............................y quit Hopefully this helps a bit. Your screen should look something like this: jrhoden@elkanah# ftp moe.2bsd.com Connected to moe.2bsd.com. 220 moe.2bsd.com FTP server (BSDI Version 7.00LS) ready. Name (moe.2bsd.com:jrhoden): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send your email address as password. Password: 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> cd /pub/2.11BSD 250 CWD command successful. ftp> mget * mget 1? y Jacob Rhoden Phone: +61 3 9844 6102 ITS Division Email: jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au Melbourne University Mobile: +61 403 788 386 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message