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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: FTP question: using wildcards with GET
Date: 13 Mar 1997 16:43:04 GMT
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In article <Pine.SUN.3.94.970313004454.7417A-100000@panix3.panix.com>,
Michael Pollak <mpollak@panix.com> wrote:
:
: The files for kermit for apples are mixed up with the files for MSkermit,
: CP/M kermit, etc. They all start with "ap", and it would be nice if FTP
: allowed wildcards in its "get" statement -- then I could just type "get
: ap*" But it seems to read the asterisk literally in a get statement
: (although it understood it in a LS statement).
:
First, note that the "Apple" files in the kermit/a directory are for the
Apple II, not the Macintosh. If those are what you really want...
Use a real ftp client, not a Web browser:
ftp kermit.columbia.edu
user: anonymous
password: your email id
cd kermit/a
prompt
mget ap*.*
bye
In fact, this is the very reason that files are grouped together by prefix.
- Frank