On Wed, 26 May 2004, Bufford, Benjamin (AGRE) wrote: > The colon is allowed in directory names and file names as far as I know.
Well, then there's no way of automatic detection if the initial path element of an URL specifies a disk or a directory. Perhaps a special construct could be used, such as a double slash. > I don't use VMS much either, but in this case I need to retrieve data > from an OpenVMS server so I have learned a little about it. I am not > sure what amount of tweaking would address the issue, but apparently > there is currently nothing in wget, or any other program I have checked, > to handle that type of pathname as a URL. Well, as the last resort, you can always use a regular FTP client. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP key available +
