I would think that you'd need to finish that command line with "< get *"
As was noted, it looks like Ben is trying to redirect the output rather
than redirect input to the program.
Ben...try using
ncftp ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/redhat-6.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ < get *
and see what happens.
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Ben Ocean wrote:
>
> > I thought the following commands (as root) would set up an interactive
> > session with RedHat:
> > >>>
> > # cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
> > # ncftp ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/redhat-6.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS/> get *
> > <<<
> > Instead, my computer hangs. Why?
>
> Probably a timeout. Works for me.
>
> LLaP
> bero
>
>
>
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