VMS Help RCP, Qualifiers, /RECURSIVE  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

       /RECURSIVE
       /NORECURSIVE

    Optional.

    Recursively copies each subtree rooted at the directory you
    specify in the UNIX file specification. For OpenVMS hosts,
    specify [directory...] (with three trailing periods) in the file
    specification instead of using this qualifier.