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. -- In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks. -- Wilbur Wright in a letter to his father, September 1900