In <[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] writes:

> i'd like to use ftp to copy an hfs directory plus anything
> underneath it from one machine to another.  'put' didn't
> work.  'mput ./dir/' didn't work either (but at least it
> tried).  is there something else i should try?          - d

I hit a similar "feature" a couple weeks ago. It seems that if the hfs
filenames are longer than 16(?) characters, you can't mget them, no matter
if you're in a MPE group or an HFS directory. lcd'ing into an hfs directory
didn't help either. I suspect mget/mput is broken.

I have (as does another site I know) a need to automatically retrieve a
group of long-randomly-named files from a remote system. Nothing I've tried
so far has worked.

The only workaround (which is ugly and alot of work) is to get your own
directory of files and ftp them one at a time. mput'ing isn't as bad, but
if you're mget'ing where you'll have to redirect ftp output to a file and
scan it to find where the file listing starts, etc... that's a pain.

   -Chris Bartram