Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 22:35:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> To: harsha godavari <h.godavari@shaw.ca> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: multiple_file_downloading Message-ID: <20021015223412.Q7763-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> In-Reply-To: <3DACBBED.C020992E@shaw.ca>
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Use ncftp (in the ports) to download an entire directory. You can use the -R switch with get, as in "get -R <dirname>" to fetch a directory and everything in it. If you want to download it from Windows, you can use an ftp client like WS_FTP, which can be found on www.download.com. Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com AOL IM: CrackedBoy "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." -- Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil) On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, harsha godavari wrote: > I would like to try and install FreeBSD 2.11 on a i386 with 4MB RAM. > FreeBSD 2.11 is available from ftp://moe.2bsd.com/pub/2.11BSD. > > Unfortunatly, there are several hundred small files in this directory.At > present I am using Netscape and shift_clicking on each name is slow and > painful :-) . > > unfortunately I am unfamiliar with FTP :-( Can I use FTP to download > an entire directory (several hundred files[small]). There seem to be > several FTP programs. Any recommendations of a simple to use > ftp-program. Thanks. > > Regards > Harsha Godavari > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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