On Sun, 17 May 1998, Lai Chi Wai wrote:
> Dear all,
> Could anybody tell me how to ftp a directory
> containing subdirectories, files , etc? If it
> needs tar first, how can I tar a directory as
> above? Thanks.
>
Many servers will send you the entire directory
tree by specifying the directory name with ".tar"
appended to the end. For example, if you want to
retrieve the directory "bigtree" the do the
following:
ftp> get bigtree.tar
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