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Re: Mget switches
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Toby Herring)
Tue Nov 24 22:34:09 1998
Reply-To: "Toby Herring" <therring@syncroflo.com>
From: "Toby Herring" <therring@syncroflo.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 22:20:57 -0500
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At the ftp prompt, type "prompt" to turn interactive prompting on or off.
(If you're getting the file-by-file confirmation, then interactive prompting
is on, and you need to turn it off.)
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Toby (aka Calin)
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http://www.calin.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Greene <pgreene@phoenix.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 9:31 PM
Subject: Mget switches
>I hope this question isn't too "newbie-ish". I know it isn't exactly Redhat
>specific either, but I'm not sure where else to ask.
>
>Does "mget" have a switch that enables you to download everything in a
>directory without having to confirm each file being downloaded?
>
>When I'm trying to download a few dozen files worth 30 or 40 megabytes,
>it's a pain to have to confirm each and every one. I've looked in "man ftp"
>and "man mget" but didn't find anything that indicated it was possible to
>override the confirmations.
>
>Thanks in advance .......
>
>Paul Greene
>
>
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