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Date:      Mon, 28 Jul 1997 11:10:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kevin Eliuk <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net>
To:        Brian William Francis Tobin XXIX <jebudas@plato.virgil.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: copying directories with ftp
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970728110553.172C-100000@kevin.sunshine.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970728095210.8530A-100000@plato.virgil.net>

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On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Brian William Francis Tobin XXIX wrote:

> 
> Hello and Thank you.
> 
> Is it possible to copy an entire directory when I use ftp?
> 
> I tried mput -r (like cp -r) but it didn't work.
> 
> Gratefully,
> Brian WF Tobin
 
I'm not sure this is what you want or depends on the
permissions of the site. But for ports you use

get dir_name.tar.gz

haven't tried it on anything larger than a port though.

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