Subj : Still no go on wget
To   : Gord Hannah
From : andrew clarke
Date : Sat Dec 06 2003 08:37 am

Sun 2003-11-23 10:29, Gord Hannah (1:17/23.1) wrote to All:

 GH> All it does is sit there and go duh, what do i need to do to get
 GH> this to work like I want? 

 GH> Here is full command line:
 GH> wget ftp://mcafee.com/pub/datfiles/english/*.zip -o
 GH> f:\adept\logfiles\wget.log

A few things come to mind:

1. AFAIK, -o causes all screen output to be sent to wget.log instead, which is 
probably why it's just seemingly sitting there doing nothing...

2. ... so you should be checking wget.log for errors, etc.

3. The ftp://mcafee.com/ won't work, try ftp://ftp.mcafee.com/.

4. Wildcards (*.zip) aren't supported if you use a http proxy, so you should 
probably use --proxy=off, in case you have a proxy enabled in wget.ini (or 
wgetrc, or whatever it's called in the OS/2 port).

5. Using the -d (debug) switch may be useful, although Wget is usually verbose 
enough already.

6. Wget 1.5 is very old and was rather buggy, from memory.  I use 1.82 (but not 
under OS/2), although I think they're up to 1.9 now.

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