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Re: [WWWOFFLE-Win32] recursive fetch in win2000

Andrew M. Bishop
Sat, 23 Sep 2000 06:31:46 -0700

Sitaram Chamarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am using wwwoffle 2.5a on Windows 2000.
> 
> When I try to fetch recursively, I get a whole slew of errors like this:
> 
>     wwwoffles[1014] Debug: Link=http://www.yahoo.com/r/pv
>     wwwoffles[1014] Warning: Cannot open file 'outgoing/tmp.1014' [Permission denied]
>     wwwoffles[1014] Warning: Cannot open the new outgoing request to write.
> 
> What have I screwed up?  The win32 notes seem to say that fetching works OK
> under Windows 2000.

There are some problems with the Win32 version of WWWOFFLE.  I do not
know what it causing them, if it is an OS problem or a cygwin library
problem.  One way that the problem shows up is that the open()
function call fails.  I know no reason why this function should fail
since there should be no permission problem with opening the file (the
error message seems misleading).

If most of the fetching works then this is the most that I can offer
at the moment since I am not a Win32 user and I currently have no
access to Win32 and cygwin compiler.  Even if I did then my Win32
knowledge is insufficient to debug problems like this.

I would like to see a Win32 version of WWWOFFLE compiled using a
Windows compiler, but I have been told that this is not possible due
to the lack of a fork() function.  I don't know if anybody else has
more information about this, I thought that NT4 had a POSIX
compatability option/feature.

-- 
Andrew.
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