On 29 Jun 2001, at 8:13, Rick Palazola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Reto Kohli wrote:
> > consider the following wget call (and think dos:)
> >
> > wget http://mydomain.org/index.html?foo=bar
> >
> > well? -- dos (and your average windows, too)
> > does of course not allow you to write files
> > with question marks in their filenames!
> > so, wget will complain
> >
> > Cannot write to 'mydomain.org/index.html?foo=bar',
> >
> > which is sadly true, and i will never get those
> > wonderful pages.. (b.g. die die die! ;)
>
> Did you try putting quotes around the URL? Don't have time to test at the
> moment, but my memory is that I used quoted URL in (this or another) DOS
> app and it did work.
The following characters are not legal in DOS filenames, even long
(VFAT) filenames:
\ / : * ? " < > |
