Personally, for recursive gets - I love yafc. It rocks.
I also like the interface.. and I could be wrong but I believe it supports
usage of the ftp:// directives.
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Leif Neland wrote:
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> > > BTW.. although risking to be off-topic by miles, I always liked the way
> > > how NetBSD's ftp(1) (since 1.4 or so) implemented http and ftp URL
> > > fetching and thus eliminated the need for a fetch(1) command.
> > > Couldn't the FreeBSD ftp(1) be enhanced that way, [ObTopic, slime slime]
> > > to use fetch(3) for that purpose?
> >
> > This is where a useful tool like wget comes into play. Wget can be pretty
> > much used as an automated replacement for fetch, or FTP URL retrieval. Can
> > also be plugged into the whole ports system so that it can retrieve the
> > ports data packages.
> >
>
> But which tool can do a command-line, recursive ftp-get? wget can't,
> because it does not create subdirs below the one specified, i.e. if I do
> a wget -r ftp://webmaster:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/htdocs/tree, it will
> create the dir webserver.my.dom/htdocs/tree, but not any subdomains to
> that.
>
> Leif
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