Really silly question. When getting either 1.6 or the latest
CVS down via CVS --->
Where is the .configure script?
Lachlan.
> Jan and I made some changes to FTP code to fix several long-standing
> bugs with recursive retrieval and CWD. I tested it with Unix FTP
> servers, but the VMS part might be broken.
>
> Could someone with access to a VMS FTP server please try to compile
> the latest CVS sources and see if recursive retrieval works? You
> don't need to DL gigabytes of data; you just need to see whether Wget
> issues the correct CWD commands to the server.
>
> The interesting cases are:
>
> # download everything under the anonymous tree.
> wget -r ftp://HOST/
>
> # download everything under <anonumous-root>/DIR.
> wget -r ftp://HOST/DIR/
>
> # download everything under USER's home directory.
> wget -r ftp://USER:PASSWORD@HOST/
>
> # download everything under ~USER/DIR.
> wget -r ftp://USER:PASSWORD@HOST/DIR/
>
> # the same, but specified in a different way.
> wget -r ftp://USER:PASSWORD@HOST//path/to/users/home/DIR/
>
> # (attempt to) download the whole Unix system directory tree
> wget -r ftp://USER:PASSWORD@HOST//
>
> Needless to say, not all of these need be present. In fact, your
> report will be interesting even with only one of them. The above is
> just a list of different setups that exhibited problems at some point.
> (The above all work for me with Unix FTP servers.)
>
> If the test case doesn't work (e.g. Wget CWD's into an obviously wrong
> directory), please send the `-d' output along with the report.
>
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