On 21 October 2014 16:47, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
Many years ago I used a program named "mirror" that would copy the contents of
a FTP server.  I think it screen-scraped the output of the "dir" command and
used that to recurse through a directory tree.

Now I need such a program and can't find one.  My Google searches turn up many
hits about things such as creating a mirror of a server with rsync (EG a
Debian mirror site).  But nothing about what I want.

Does anyone have any ideas?

How about lftp? http://lftp.yar.ru/features.html

I use that program to mirror many repos which are only available to download via FTP or http

Sean