It seems odd that ncftp would ask for 'blah.tar' when you tell
it to recursively download a directory.  The tar conversion should
only occur if you ask for it explicitly.

-Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "T. Martin" <catfish@alltel.net>
To: "NetBSD Alpha Port" <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: ftp server change?


> Ok scratch that idea,
> I just used wget instead.
>
>  fyi get -R * will auto tar the dir's which upon being dropped you
can't
> resume that is why tar of the whole tree down is bad.
>
> Thanks anyway.
> Terry.
> Merry Christmas.
>
>
>
> Achilles' Biological Findings:
>         (1) If a child looks like his father, that's heredity.  If he
>             looks like a neighbor, that's environment.
>         (2) A lot of time has been wasted arguing over what came first
>             -- the chicken or the egg.  It was undoubtedly the
>             rooster.
>
>
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Andrew Gillham wrote:
>
> > T. Martin writes:
> > >  Hello,
> > >
> > >   Would it be possible to get the auto (TAR) of directories on the
ftp
> > > server turned off as its a real pain with a dial-up that gets
dropped
> > > every 12 hours since you can't resume a (TAR) download with ncftp.
> >
> > Why is ncftp asking for the directory itself rather than the files
inside
> > the directory?
> >
> > -Andrew
> >
>
>