Mark wrote...

>Am trying to develop some scripts to replicate the html/gif/js files
>comprising a website from one machine to another and am falling foul
>of FTP.

Have you considered tying the GNU wget utility instead of creating an
FTP script? GNU wget is designed to walk an http or ftp server tree to
pull local copies eg for mirroring a site. It can start at a given URL
and parse the HTML files to follow hyperlinks. Several options exist
for limiting the traversal (eg do not leave the host, only pull files
with certain URL prefixes or filename extensions, etc).

An example for GNU wget usage... It pulled a mirror of the web based
LaserROM manuals from an internal Unix server to my 3000 (just in time
before the Unix server was obsoleted ;-)

Lars.

(see http://www.editcorp.com/personal/lars_appel for wget/iX details)