On 13 Nov, Brad Salai wrote:
> As for ftp, mget is a nice idea, but it asks you to confirm that you still
> want  each file as it comes up. This makes it impossible to just get a
> collection of files, either by matching a pattern, or listing the files,
> without sitting there.

If at the ftp prompt, you type "prompt off" before your mget command,
ftp won't ask you to confirm each file that you mget.

	Cheers,
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   Johnny C. Lam
   Department of Statistics			lamj@stat.cmu.edu
   Carnegie Mellon University			http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/

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