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[er&]

Is there a package which will enable an apt-get install <pkg> to transfer a ftp site to a file /etc/file.txt.

Second question is there a way in Linux(Debian 3.1r3) to transfer an ftp site to a file.

[TruthSeeker]

I can't quite tell what your question is, but it sounds like you need "ftp":
# apt-get install ftp
then you can use it like so:

$ ftp username@ftp.yourserver.org
ftp> ls
...
ftp> get file.txt
ftp> exit

The file will be fetched to your current directory... so if you need it somewhere else, do (as root)

# chown root:root file.txt
# mv file.txt /etc/file.txt