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 I ocasionally download big chunk of multiple files using ftp.
 Basically I use mget but it would be very nice if there's something like
 mreget or mnewer so that I can download only different or newer files.
 I guess there must be a simple solution, but I don't know.
 Could anybody tell me how to do this?

 Thanks.

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:  I ocasionally download big chunk of multiple files using ftp.
:  Basically I use mget but it would be very nice if there's something like
:  mreget or mnewer so that I can download only different or newer files.
:  I guess there must be a simple solution, but I don't know.
:  Could anybody tell me how to do this?

You could try ncftp (ftp.cs.unl.edu/pub/ncftp/), shipped with at least
Slackware. One can do a "get *" to retrieve files that either don't exist
locally or are newer than the ones you have. Also supported is "get -R"
that will recursively retrieve directories...

:  Thanks.

The interface of the current version (2.3.0 I believe) is quite an
improvement on older versions...

Julian

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