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Hi Folks,

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:34:52 +0000 (UTC), baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

>> baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>>>> Wget is not really needed if you have links and ftp.

>>>    I cannot agree with that.  :(

>>>    Wget does more stuff than Links and FTP will ever do.

>>> Regards,
>>>          Ron

>> I couldn't agree with you more, Ron! How on earth do you script
>> retrieval of multiple files (perhaps at multiple sites) with those? How
>> do you mirror a whole website? No way! Wget is an indispensable tool.

>> /Olle

> I don't think you can get multiple files with the busybox wget (* is not
> found).

   No, of course not. As far as I know, no version of WGET will
recognise wildcard requests.

>  What does busybox wget do which links cannot do?

   For a start, retrieve file(s) over a succession of sessions by
resuming downloads from the last point reached. For Links, if you try to
download a file over separate sessions, Links will start again from the
beginning.

   WGET can also leech a website to any depth you specify, thus
retrieving the subdirectories and supporting files.

   I don't know specifically what busybox-wget can do, because I do not
use it. I use the full WGET from Slackware (for BL2/BL3) and the DOS
port while in DOS.  But I am sure that "wget --help" at the BL CL will
tell you what that busybox-wget can do, if that is all you have.

Regards,
        Ron


Ron Clarke
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