Or he could have just done an "ncftpget -R".
Unless maybe that doesn't work with NT/IIS's ftp server but I think it does. But since they have higher access to both machines in the examples I would have opted for "scp -r" over ftp. But I digress.
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Yep, just tried it with Win2k's FTP server. "ncftpget -R <url>" and "wget -r <url>" both will recursively copy a directory from a Windows 2000 (and I assume NT) FTP server. I applaud the effort on the script though.
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[ November 25, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]