It's debateable whether these are bugs or suggestions; make of them what you will. I've been using GNU Wget 1.5.0; these may have been fixed since then. 1) Situation: Using "wget -r -nc -w=DELAY URL" to update a partly downloaded tree. The program will have a long series of Check if file 1 present: is present, skip Wait DELAY s. Check if file 2 present: is present, skip Wait DELAY s. (check / delay repeats several hundred times) Check if file 513 present: isn't, download Wait DELAY s. The reason I use the -w option is to reduce the load on the remote server; I think there should only be a delay between downloading files. 2) When I want to not download part of a site, I will create an appropriately named directory and remove write access. (I don't know of any better way to prune off paths.) However, wget will still download the files and then discover it can't write it. I think it would be nice if wget would make sure that it could write the file before attempting the download. Also, this tends to have unnecessary delays as mentioned in part 1. ------------------------ Mark Jeffrey Tilford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
