Re: ftp> get question

["Noah Aklilu" <naklilu@ualberta.ca>]

You could use an "enhanced" ftp client such as ncftp
which supports transferring only the files that are 
differ.

Noah.

On 1 Apr 2001, at 15:17, David Terrell wrote:

> (this question has no place on tech@)
> 
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 02:32:47PM -0400, Mark Spivak wrote:
> > Is there a way to tell "mget *" not to get files that exist
> > locally? (I turn interactive mode off).
> 
> chmod the files not-writable locally before doing mget *. 
> 
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