comp.os.linux.networking

John Murtari wrote:

> Not sure what the final goal is, but a lot of people don't
> know that most FTP servers will automatically create a tar
> file for you of a directory, .e.g. On windows xp I can open
> a command prompt, use their command line ftp to login to
> our RHEL 4 server, switch to binary transfer and then
> type: get junk_dir.tar -- it will download a single tar
> file to you containing the contents of junk_dir on the server.
>
> Hope this helps. There may be a way to 'reverse' the
> process, but I don't know the command.

Didn't know that, but also, did not get it to work.
Tried it on ProFTPD, PureFTP and FTPD. (not my installs, but servers I
have FTP logins on, so it's either turned off or unsupported).