Not when you're behind a firewall that causes the date and time information
to be lost during the retrieval.  :(  I've had "uneven" results with wget
behind my company's firewall, to say the least.  Some downloads work just
fine, others do not.  This method was instituted for one of the sites that
did not.

Mark Post

-----Original Message-----
From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 5:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.2 Code Changes Between RC2 and GA


> Mike,
>
> There wasn't a lot of difference, but more than just a few files.  I
pointed
> my web browser at Red Hat's FTP server, did a cut and paste of the RPMS
> directory, and stuck that in a file.  Then, I wrote a small Rexx exec to
> take that and compare it to an "ls -l>output" command run on my local
system
> to tell me what I needed to download.  It only looked at file sizes, not
> dates, but it was enough to save me from downloading the entire GA
> directory.  I can send the Rexx program to you if you want.

wget does pretty much that.


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