[CLUE-Talk] Re: How can I do a multiple file download?

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> Message: 5
> Subject: Re: [CLUE-Talk] How to do a multiple file download
> <200112211551.JAA08136 at feynman.graphics-muse.org>
> To: clue-talk at clue.denver.co.us
> From: Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at attbi.com>
> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:51:00 -0700
> Reply-To: clue-talk at clue.denver.co.us
> 
> On 12-21 09:51, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> > Thus spoke BOF
> > > How can I do a multiple file download?
> >
> > gftp is a GTK+ program that allows selection of multiple files for
> > download.  I'm not big on GUI programs for things like ftp, but this one is
> > rather nice.
> 
> Speaking of GUI ftp clients, I noticed something yesterday that has been
> nagging me ever since. A friend of mine set up an ftp site for us to
> exchange some files on. It's a W2K machine. Commandline ftp works fine from
> my FreeBSD machine, but mget'ing is annoying when you have to be around to
> answer 'y' for every file...



ftp> prompt

toggles the interactive verification for each file.  With prompt disabled,
all answers to mget each file are automatically 'y'es.

foooie on gui :/

HTH