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  • Still no go on wget

    From Gord Hannah@1:17/23.1 to All on Sun Nov 23 10:29:52 2003
    Hello All hope you are having a good day :-)!
    About: Still no go on wget


    wget 1.5.1

    I the --passive-ftp and no go, the same result without passive in the command line. No go either.

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

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

    Hope this helps. Keep us posted.

    We are a fine board trying to make it better.
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  • From Eddy Thilleman@1:261/38.3 to Gord Hannah on Tue Nov 25 12:12:15 2003
    Hello Gord,

    Sunday 23 November 2003 10:29, Gord Hannah wrote to All:

    wget 1.5.1

    ...snipped...

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

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

    I don't see an error in this commandline. Why don't you try a newer wget version?


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  • From andrew clarke@3:633/267 to Gord Hannah on Sat Dec 6 08:37:32 2003
    Sun 2003-11-23 10:29, Gord Hannah (1:17/23.1) wrote to All:

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

    Here is full command line:
    wget ftp://mcafee.com/pub/datfiles/english/*.zip -o 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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