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Lee Forrest wrote:
>
> If you specify a directory (the above would get you to the root
> directory, I'd think) Wget will retrieve the directory listing,
> parse it and convert it to HTML.

Yes, the BL3 wget does that (unless there is an index.html
in the directory, in which case it retrieves that).

> But the wget on BL seems to be very limited compared
> to that one.

Limited in what way?

> I hope I'm wrong. Because that would make the BL (busybox) wget
> truly functional for FTP retrievals.

The BL3 wget works well for me.

> This is what I got when I entered 'wget -v ftp://...'
> wget: illegal option -- v

You're looking for verbose output?  I believe that is
the default.

Cheers,
Steven