Hi all,

I am fairly new to ftp. I know it's as basic as it gets, but like I said I'm new to it. Anywho, I wanted to transfer a lot of files from the computer in my wife's office to my RH 8 Pro machine at home, which is directly connected to the web. We were at the office and I opened ftp and connected to the RH machine at home with no problems. By the way, the computer at her office is Windows 98. Now, the important thing to know is that all of these files I was sending were actually folders, with many files in them. Now, what I did was put all these folders into one folder. I opened a command prompt on the 98 machine, changed to that directory, then opened ftp. Here's what I did:

ftp> mput *

That seemed to work, but the weird thing was that I had to click "y" to vberify the sending of the file (folder). First of all, is there a way to send mass amounts of files without having to click "y" for every one? Also, when we came home, I noticed that all the folders transfered were not folders (directories), but just files. Why is that? Can folders be ftp'ed?! Please let me know. I'd like to try to ftp these things again.

Chris

You can't actually copy folders using ftp. Smarter ftp clients can tell what are folders, create a folder on the remote site with that name, then cd to both directories and transfer the files. I think you can use a "-i" switch to turn off interactive prompting.

Try using WS_FTP
http://www.wsftp.com/

You will find it much easier using a GUI to do it.

Like I said, David, you just can't get rid of me, HA! So, if I install ws_ftp on the win98 machine, I should be able to transfer folders to the linux box? Lemme know, thanks!

Chris

PS. Get in any good golf games lately?

Yes - WS_FTP can read folders, create a folder with te same name on the linux box then copy the contents over. Another good FTP client for windows is Smart FTP:
http://www.smartftp.com/

It has many more features but I still prefer WS_FTP for simplicity.

The other option you have is to create a tar/zip archive on windows then ftp the archive and extract it at the other end. This also has the advantage that if you are on a slow network then it should be a lot faster.

Funny you should say that. On saturday I won the first round of a 2 round competition (next round is next saturday) with a net 54 and 45 stableford points that cut my hadicap by 3 strokes . Then on Sunday I played in a foursomes competition and we won by 1/2 a stroke!

try using "ftp commander" ..

http://www.internet-soft.com/ftpcomm.htm


try the above site... or go for google search..

Thanks udayan. David, that's awesome! Good for you, dude. 1/2 stroke, eh? Sounds like your definitely much better at golf than I am, lol. Ummmm, one other quick thing. I think the creation of a "tar/zip" file on the Windows box is the best idea, but how do I create a tar archive that Linux will know how to extract? Can tar files be created with, say: Winzip? Lemme know, man! Thx and good luck this coming Saturday!

Chris