Re: ftp'ing directories

2003-02-12 Thread Samuel Flory
Ed Wilts wrote: >On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 03:17:55PM -0800, Samuel Flory wrote: > > >>I believe that new rev of >>redhat installs lftp by default. (Which pisses off me as a ncftp user.) >> >> > >ncftp is still there on your CDs and should therefore also be available >via up2date. Probably takes y

Re: ftp'ing directories

2003-02-11 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 18:13, Ted Gervais wrote: > On Tuesday 11 February 2003 07:17 pm, Samuel Flory wrote: > > Thanks Samuel and others who responded. I brought up NcFTP and it did the job. > I already had that application installed and in the wings but I normally just > use 'ftp' that comes w

Re: ftp'ing directories - speed issue

2003-02-11 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 04:20:05PM -0800, n30 wrote: > Is their a way to measure the download speed of FTP server? Like the other > day i wanted to download RH 8.1 beta 2 and had to try with several RH > mirrors before i found a server which was reasonably fast. ncftp will give on-the-fly speed in

Re: ftp'ing directories - speed issue

2003-02-11 Thread Michael Mansour
essage - > From: "Ted Gervais" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:20 AM > Subject: ftp'ing directories > > > > > > I normally do ftp'ing from the command line and > today I st

Re: ftp'ing directories - speed issue

2003-02-11 Thread n30
thier a way to determine the download speed of all the FTP servers ..so that i can download from the fastest server? Thanks in advnace -Vij - Original Message - From: "Ted Gervais" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:

Re: ftp'ing directories

2003-02-11 Thread Ted Gervais
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 07:17 pm, Samuel Flory wrote: Thanks Samuel and others who responded. I brought up NcFTP and it did the job. I already had that application installed and in the wings but I normally just use 'ftp' that comes with the operatiing system. I know it is plain and simple

Re: ftp'ing directories

2003-02-11 Thread fred smith
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:46:59PM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 03:17:55PM -0800, Samuel Flory wrote: > > I believe that new rev of > > redhat installs lftp by default. (Which pisses off me as a ncftp user.) > > ncftp is still there on your CDs and should therefore also be av

Re: ftp'ing directories

2003-02-11 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 03:17:55PM -0800, Samuel Flory wrote: > I believe that new rev of > redhat installs lftp by default. (Which pisses off me as a ncftp user.) ncftp is still there on your CDs and should therefore also be available via up2date. Probably takes you 2 minutes to install it if

Re: ftp'ing directories

2003-02-11 Thread Samuel Flory
gabriel wrote: i highly reccomend installing ncftp. it's a commandline ftp program that supports stuff like this and it's far easier to use. it even comes with two other little programs that you can use to automate ftp puts and gets. There is also ncftp-get, ftpcopy, and lftp. I believe

Re: ftp'ing directories

2003-02-11 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:20:05PM -0400, Ted Gervais wrote: > > I normally do ftp'ing from the command line and today I sturggled to find a > way to ftp a directory and all its subdirectories. You can use either ncftp or lftp, both included in Red Hat's distribution. The command "get -R direct

Re: ftp'ing directories

2003-02-11 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
I don't believe that ftp has the facility for doing this. I used to do it with a script.. It's a pain. I'd suggest installing ncftp. It can do directories, and much more! It's on the CD's, it just doesn't install by default. Ric Ted Gervais wrote: I normally do ftp'ing from the command line a

Re: ftp'ing directories

2003-02-11 Thread Robert Tinsley
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 17:20, Ted Gervais wrote: > I normally do ftp'ing from the command line and today I sturggled to find a > way to ftp a directory and all its subdirectories. any ftp-mirror package should work. i installed this one the other day, which claims to recurse... http://www.ohse.de

Re: ftp'ing directories

2003-02-11 Thread gabriel
i highly reccomend installing ncftp. it's a commandline ftp program that supports stuff like this and it's far easier to use. it even comes with two other little programs that you can use to automate ftp puts and gets. -- without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony - lau tzu, "tao

ftp'ing directories

2003-02-11 Thread Ted Gervais
I normally do ftp'ing from the command line and today I sturggled to find a way to ftp a directory and all its subdirectories. Is that possible? I even thought that if I entered something like: mget -R directory *would work. That just gets the files that are in the first directory. The