[Zope] ftp: get -R

[Bill Anderson]

Stephen Harrison wrote:

> So if I do get -R * I get everything at this level, everything at the
> level below, but no deeper.
> 
> If I now move down into a sub-directory I and repeat the operation, I
> now get files one level deeper (ie. two levels below where I start).
> 
> I suspect, however, that this is a problem with ncftp rather than
> with ZServer.  I don't know how ncftp works, but from what I
> understand, it is doing a whole host of ftp requests, the results of
> which it will parse and generate another set of requests for the
> recursion.  For whatever reason, ncftp seems to stop once it has
> gone two levels deep.

In newer versions of ncftp, it will use the TAR method to recursively
get directories, iff the server supports it.

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