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+## Copyright (C) 2009-2012 David Bateman
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} mget (@var{f}, @var{file})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} mget (@var{f}, @var{dir})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} mget (@dots{}, @var{target})
+## Download a remote file @var{file} or directory @var{dir} to the local
+## directory on the FTP connection @var{f}. @var{f} is an FTP object
+## returned by the @code{ftp} function.
+##
+## The arguments @var{file} and @var{dir} can include wildcards and any
+## files or directories on the remote server that match will be downloaded.
+##
+## If a third argument @var{target} is given, then a single file or
+## directory will be downloaded with the name @var{target} to the local
+## directory.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function mget (f, file)
+ __ftp_mget__ (f.curlhandle, file);
+endfunction