Re: die zombie downloads die die die!

2005-09-19 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
I consider it a feature. Wget was designed specifically for downloading in the background; it catches the hangup signal to it knows not to write to the (now defunct) terminal. The idea is for downloads in SSH/telnet/modem sessions to keep running if the user is accidentally disconnected. If I

Re: wget itself discards # and the rest in urls

2005-09-19 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Martin Koniczek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: in contrast to the faq (http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/faq.html): [...] The FAQ is very imprecise here with its use of the term funny characters. [...] this faq additionally misled me - perhaps just kill the # from the funny characters listing?

Re: wget itself discards # and the rest in urls

2005-09-19 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
Alle 13:59, domenica 18 settembre 2005, Hrvoje Niksic ha scritto: in contrast to the faq (http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/faq.html): 3.3 How do I download a URL with funny characters in it? [...] The FAQ is very imprecise here with its use of the term funny characters. There are

Re: with recursive wget status code does not reflect success/failure of operation

2005-09-19 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
Alle 09:06, sabato 17 settembre 2005, Steven M. Schweda ha scritto: I suppose that it's a waste of time and space to point this out here, but native VMS status codes include a severity field (the low three bits), with popular values being (from STSDEF.H): #define STS$K_WARNING 0

Re: with recursive wget status code does not reflect success/failure of operation

2005-09-19 Thread Steven M. Schweda
From: Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ideally, the values used could be defined in some central location, allowing convenient replacement with suitable VMS-specific values when the time comes. (Naturally, _all_ exit() calls and/or return statements should use one of the pre-defined

Re: with recursive wget status code does not reflect success/failure of operation

2005-09-19 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
Alle 18:06, lunedì 19 settembre 2005, Hrvoje Niksic ha scritto: Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mmh, i don't understand why we should use VMS-specific values in wget. The closest Unix has to offer are these BSD-specific values which few programs use: /* * SYSEXITS.H -- Exit

Re: with recursive wget status code does not reflect success/failure of operation

2005-09-19 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: yes, but i was thinking to define wget specific error codes. I wouldn't object to those. The scripting people might find them useful.

Re: Bug rpt

2005-09-19 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
HonzaCh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Latest version (1.10.1) turns out an UI bug: the thousand separator (space according to my local settings) displays as á (character code 0xA0, see attch.) Although it does not affect the primary function of WGET, it looks quite ugly. Env.: Win2k Pro/Czech