[ale] ftp a directory

[jhubbs at telocity.com (Jeff Hubbs)]

ncftp is also capable of pulling whole or partial trees.  The right kind
of ftp daemon will also tar up directories and send them as one file
that gets untarred on the receiving end.

- Jeff

"Brian J.Dowd" wrote:
> 
> 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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