On Fri, 28 May 2004, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > > 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. > > Wget could always support a URL parameter, such as: > > wget 'ftp://server/dir1/dir2/file;disk=foo' > > after which Wget would CWD to `foo:[dir1.dir2]' and download `file'. > But such an extension would only ever work with Wget.
Well, as I understand no other web client works with that server anyway. ;-) At least the double-slash has it's history as being used for a "super-root" specifier and it could be made transparent for non-VMS servers. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP key available +
