Try using:   wget

$ wget -c -r ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/1.6.1

The -c  indicate --continue--  and the -r indicate recurse into in this
case, recurse into subdirectories in the netbsd ftp tree.

bye.


----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Thomas <ipthomas@mac.com>
To: <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: ftp help


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> On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 04:02 PM, L. S. wrote:
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> > Is it possible to get entire directories of files and subdirectiories
> > via ftp?  Any ftp command, flags, etc.?  I want to download 1.6.1 via
> > ftp without going directory by directory, file by file.  (Locally, I
> > use
> > just scp for machine to machine transfers, which does what I need.)
>
> You should be able to do this in the sets directory
>
> mget *.tgz
>
> Also turn off the interactive prompt before you do this so you don't
> get asked to confirm each time.
>
> prompt
>
> This is all of course, at the ftp prompt.  Do a '?' to get a list of
> all the other commands in ftp.
>
>
> Ian P. Thomas
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