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Article: 12457 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: ncftpget, NetPresenz, and recursive directory transfers
Date: 21 May 2001 16:27:51 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <9ea6dh$f0f@cokie.wellesley.edu>,
Kirsten Chevalier <kirsten@rover.wellesley.edu> wrote:
: ... I'm currently
: trying to move over all the user accounts from the Mac to the Sun. Since we
: have about 80 users, I'd like to do this automatically. Browsing around on
: the web, I found out about ncftpget and its "get -R" command ...
: It wasn't that simple. (It's never that simple.) ...
:
I don't know if this will help because I've never had access to a Mac-based
FTP server, but here is a new UNIX-based FTP client that does recursive
GETs, and they work with a variety of UNIX and non-UNIX servers -- but have
never been tried with a Mac:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftpclient.html
It should only take you a few minutes to verify whether it works or not.
The commands would be something like this:
ftp wilber
[ log in ... ]
rcd <remote-directory-name> ; RCD = Remote CD
cd <local-directory-name>
get /recursive *
Or maybe "get /recursive :" (I'm not sure what the syntax would be for the
Mac FTP server). Let me know how it goes. If it "almost works", I'll see
what I can do to make it really work (the software in question is C-Kermit
7.1 Beta.01, so there is still a little time to make changes before the
final release).
However, one final caution: even if it works, who knows what the results will
look like on UNIX. Mac files have two "forks", which don't mean anything to
UNIX. Does the Mac server send just the data fork? Or both? If both, does
it use some kind of syntax or protocol to mark them? etc etc.
Also note that the text-file formats are different between MacOS and UNIX.
The new FTP server will actually take care of that for you automatically
if you let it know that naming conventions on the server; this will let it
switch per-file between text and binary mode. Or you can force the entire
transfer to be in text (or binary) mode.
More about the new FTP client here:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftpscripts.html <-- Scripting tutorial
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit3.html#x3 <-- Complete docs
- Frank