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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