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Lee Forrest wrote:
>
> ~/<#>wget ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/
> Connecting to ftp.slackware.com[207.173.172.131]:21
> wget: RETR: /pub/slackware/: Not a regular file

Sorry about that.  When I tested it (just before sending 
my message), I did a HTTP query (which worked) instead of 
a FTP query (which doesn't).

FTP query:
--------------------------------------------------------
<$>wget ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/slackware/
Connecting to ftp.nluug.nl[192.87.102.36]:21
wget: RETR: Failed to open file.
--------------------------------------------------------

HTTP query:
----------------------------------------------------------
<$>wget http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/slackware/
Connecting to ftp.nluug.nl[192.87.102.36]:80
index.html   100% |********************************|  3290
----------------------------------------------------------

> it doesn't seem to allow one to find out what's 
> available on the server.

In most cases it is possible to get around this
by putting http://  instead of  ftp://

It appears that the BL3 wget automatically 
does a RETR when it processes ftp://   

This doesn't happen when it processes http://

Cheers,
Steven