[Zope] FTP from Zope

[Dennis Allison]

I wrote an External Method which generates an FTP script to download as 
source one of my sites.  When I pass it to the FTP system it happily logs
into Zope and starts the downloads, building the directory tree on the 
way.  Part of the way through it dies on a "too many files" error.  And
a look at the transaction log says there were lots and lots of file 
errors.

I did not attept to do much of a handshake -- I just stream the commands
into the ftp program

	ftp -m <commands >>log

The commands manage the tree traversal and actions on both the source and 
the destination and follow the general pattern of 

	move to directory at the source
	create directory at destination (the local machine)
	mget * 
	move to any subdirrectory (and repeat recursively)

Any idea why it bombs?  workaround?

-dra