On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:20:50PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:56:42AM +0200, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> > > 1) we adapt ftpd to also allow a directory to be fetched as an archive like
> > > ``ftp ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/.../src/usr.bin/tn3270.tgz'' where
> > > the tn3270 is just a source directory in -current or in -release ... not
> > > only handy in this situation but for more .... (or is it allready 
> > > implemented?)
> > 	huh?  I've been wishing for a feature like this, but why does it help here?
> We've had this for _quite_ some time.  man ftpd.conf, look for "conversion".
	er sure.  until you ftp to a machine not running NetBSD.  There isn't even
a way to get an entire directory (not necessarily tarring it up) that I've
found (mget doesn't create directories).  Of course, I haven't bothered to
look into what it would take to do this, so I can't complain too much.

eric