FTP access to Terminal Procedures

Journeyman wrote:
In article , Mitty wrote:

On 3/7/05 12:54 PM, Doug Carter wrote the following:

The FAA, AOPA, Sporty's etc. have good "point and click" HTML (web
browser) interfaces to US Terminal procedures but don't seem to allow
FTP access.

Does anyone allow FTP access to the TPP's?

'scuse my jumping late into this thread, but I in a case of serendipity
just came across wget. It seems to be exactly what you need. From the
man page:
GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of
files from the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP pro-
tocols, as well as retrieval through HTTP proxies.

HTH,

Morris

Thanks Morris. The problem is not the tool, I happen to use curl
(similar to wget). The problem is that the FAA, AOPA and Airnav (the
ones I have tried) all seem to go out their way to prevent you from
having access to a valid URL to download with wget or curl.

Doug Carter wrote:

Does anyone allow FTP access to the TPP's?

This would make it a bit easier to write a shell script that could
download and print TPP's for a list of airports.

All of the suggestions so far are good, but (always a "but") I really
just want "plain old" FTP access like I have to the NWS weather files.

I made a simple shell command that takes the zip file of terps that I
batch download from the AOPA web site (for free) and prints them on
pre-punched paper. This part is trivial but, being really lazy I want
to expand the command so it will take a simple list of airports and
download those files (and then print them) so I don't have to go through
the mouse clicking exercise.