[wplug] Off-the-wall Question on FTP

[Eric Cooper]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:14:38AM -0500, Diana A. Clarion wrote:
> I notice that one can attempt to retrieve a
> file several directories removed from the remote CWD, but if one does not
> specify a local file name and a similar tree does not exist locally, the
> client goes *boof* (technical term).

Broken client, I'd say:
    $ ncftp debian.mirrors.pair.com
    [...]
    ncftp / > get dists/etch/Release.gpg
    [...]
    $ ls -l Release.gpg
    -rw-r--r--  1 ecc ecc 189 Mar  6 16:29 Release.gpg

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