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- From: duncan@erim.org (Robert Duncan)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Question about getting files from ftp sites
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.160637.18191@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 16:06:37 GMT
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Reply-To: duncan@erim.org (Robert Duncan)
- Organization: The Internet
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- |Now I am beginning to download some packages from various ftp sites, a new
- |problem arises: Most files are named xxx.x.tar.Z, when I do (in binary mode)
- |"(m)get xxx.x.tar.Z", ftp won't send the file(s) to my PC (DOS) because
- |the DOS file has to be named xxxxxxxx.yyy, no more than one period. I have
- |to do "get xxx.x.tar.Z xxx.z". But this is tedious, and once I mcopy
- |xxx.z to linux side, I have to do "mv xxx.z xxx.tar.Z", quite annoying.
- |Any suggestions on how to avoid it?
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- If you can ftp them to a unix machine first, you can tar a bunch of them
- together as xxxxxx.tar, then ftp the combined tar file to the PC. Use
- Mtools or mount a msdos fs to get the file to Linux, where you can untar
- the xxxxxxxx.tar file into the various package-yyy.tar.Z files. I don't
- know if this would be less trouble, but you would retain the original file
- names and dates this way.
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- Robert H. Duncan
- Environmental Research Institute of Michigan
- PO Box 134001 Ann Arbor, MI 48113-4001
- (313)994-1200 x2880 Internet: duncan@erim.org
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