Re: [ILUG] recursive host-to-host FTP

From: Matthew Sammon (sammonm at domain tcd.ie)
Date: Fri 07 Jul 2000 - 20:27:10 IST


On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:56:35PM +0100, Paul Kelly wrote:
> Try 'get dirname.tar' - as in just tack on .tar to the end of the
> directory name. Most FTP servers will then tar up the directory for you

Alas:

ftp> get foo.tar
local: foo.tar remote: foo.tar
200 PORT command successful.
550 Local error: conversion program not found. Cannot TAR file.

would have been handy though

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