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Date:	Sun, 12 May 2002 22:30:54 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: FTP program

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Sandy Shapiro wrote:
>
> wget ... I have gone through 43 pages of documentation

And they say programmers never document their projects.

Try this syntax:

wget ftp://sandyshapiro.org/binaries/*

Some of the options you might want to use (they aren't necessarily
necessary) are -c and -t (these are CaSe SeNsItIvE, don't use -C and
-T). The -t parameter requires a number, i.e. -t5 for example. -c will
restart a download if the connection is broken without losing what you
already have received, and -t* will retry a broken connection the
specified number of times (i.e. -t5 will try 5 times). The syntax with
these parameters is:

wget -c -t5 ftp://sandyshapiro.org/binaries/*

Either of the above should work fine.

- Peter

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