This patch must hold the world record for living in my inbox:
From: John Ehresman <jehresma@dsg.harvard.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 16:07:11 -0400
He provided a fix for the version that comes with Python 1.3:
ftpmirror.py revision 1.1... And it was still relevant!
print 'Skipping symbolic link %s -> %s' % \
(words[-3], words[-1])
continue
- filename = words[-1]
- infostuff = words[-5:-1]
+ filename = string.join(words[8:])
+ infostuff = words[5:]
mode = words[0]
skip = 0
for pat in skippats: