On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Mirko Vukovic wrote:
>> I tried http://localhost/e:/... but wget returns with no file
>> transfers and no messages.  Same result if I try http://e:/...
>>
>> Again, maybe wget is just not meant for this application.  Are there
>> alternatives?
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> Giving an URL with "http://"; implies that you are running a web server
> at that location; I suspect that you aren't.

Right.  Duh ...

> What you need is for Wget
> to support "file://"-scheme URLs, and give it those; but Wget currently
> has no such support. Limited support for file:// will likely be added at
> some point in the future.
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> Micah J. Cowan

Thanks.


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