If anyone out there would like to add a pkgsrc entry for
	this... :)

		David/absolute

On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Simon Raahauge DeSantis wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 09:44:58PM +0100, Anders Dinsen wrote:
> > Is there an easy way to have ftp to upload a full directory tree of files,
> > creating the directories as needed?
> > 
> > The man page mentions uploading (or downloading) a tar file, but that does
> > not work if the ftp server does not support it (mine does'nt) and I don't
> > have telnet access.
> > 
> > It's my web hotel of course.
> > 
> > A 'find' based script that produces a command file for ftp is of course a
> > possibility.
> > 
> 
> There is lftp, which I also really like as a normal ftp client. It has a
> mirror command that can download a whole directory try. It also can upload a
> tree using some switch (mirror -r or something (r for reverse). It's got a
> bunch of other nifty features as well. You can get it from 
> ftp://ftp.yars.free.net/pub/software/unix/net/ftp/client/lftp/
> You could also hack up functionality like this for the NetBSD ftp client. ;)
> -- 
> -Simon Raahauge DeSantis
>