Here is what has worked for me (from a hamm system). mc, push F9 and choose "FTP link..." lftp, has a useful mirror command
Cheers, /Karl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Hammar Asp� Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lilla Asp� 2340 0173 140 57 S-742 94 �sthammar 070 511 97 84 Professionella Linuxl�sningar Sweden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Christian Zapf wrote: > Hello PowerPeople > > I'd like to try to install Debian on my PowerMac box, but I'm already > stuck when it comes to downloading the whole binary-powerpc tree. Every > ftp client I tried to use for a recursive get thinks that the sym links > are directories, tries to "cd" there, gets an error (since it's actually > a link to a file), and skips. I noticed that most of these links go into > a few other trees, like one or two binary-all. > > Maybe I could just download the whole bin-ppc tree without these linked > files, and then download the few trees like this binary-all directory. > But I'd like to make sure that I don't miss anything. > > If anybody knows about an FTP client that can recursively download and > doesn't get fooled because of these links, just tell me. I have Macs, > PCs (NT or Linux) and Suns around me, the client does not need to be for > MacOS. > > Thanks for any help you can give me > > Christian > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
