[ale] ftp a directory

[root at etherweb.com (Brian J.Dowd)]

On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> Evening,
> I have been searching for a hour for the answer and have decided to use
> the vast knowledge of ale, so
> 
> 1) how do you transfer a directory using command line ftp.

Try 
wget ftp://username:password at ftp.domainname.com/path/to/directory/*

> 
> 2) what in the world does mdir do? (in layman's terms please)

Mdir (or do you mean mget) lists all the files contained on an MSDOS floppy

> 
> This would seem a simple concept, but I am still making myself get more
> comfortable with command line ftp.  Thanks in advance.

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Brian J. Dowd
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