[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #42426] Ftp mget with directory arg gets error message and does not download directory contents

[Allan Jacobs]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42426>

                 Summary: Ftp mget with directory arg gets error message and
does not download directory contents
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: allanjacobs
            Submitted on: Mon 26 May 2014 12:56:28 AM GMT
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Other
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: allanjacobs
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

The ftp function mget is supposed to be able to take a directory argument. 
When used, the directory is created in the local directory. No files from that
directory are downloaded).  The download is accompanied by an error message.

When ftp is run from the OS command line, mget <dirname> responds by prompting
the user whether or not she wants to download each of the contents of
<dirname>.  If the directory actually pre-exists locally, the download
succeeds.  If the directory does not yet exist locally, the local directory is
NOT created.

In octave, the directory is created if it does not already exist.  With
respect to the files in the directory,  the behavior of mget(f,DIRNAME) is the
same whether or not the local directory exists: the files are NOT copied.

It is not clear what the behavior should be inside Octave w/r to the files in
the remote directory.


f=ftp('ftp.gnu.org','anonymous','address@hidden')
cd(f,'/gnu')
cd('tmp')
ascii(f)
mget(f,'Licenses')


The error message reads:


error: __ftp_mget__: FTP: couldn't retrieve (RETR failed) the specified file
error: called from:
error:   /usr/local/share/octave/4.1.0+/m/@ftp/mget.m at line 36, column 3


The directory is created:


% ls -lR tmp/Licenses
Licenses:
total 0


$ hg summary
parent: 18781:888f8ce79bbe tip
 maint: Periodic merge gui-release -> default.
branch: default
bookmarks: *@
commit: 7477 unknown (clean)
update: (current)






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