Martin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 2. Perhaps wget should implement:
>    --passive-ftp=on
>    --passive-ftp=off
> as well as plain "--passive-ftp" (same as "-passive-ftp=on")

This is not entirely obvious (to put it mildly), but you can always
use `-e passive_ftp=off'.

> 1. Perhaps wget should obey the setting of environment variable
> FTP_PASSIVE_MODE (="NO" or "YES")?

Do other programs obey that variable?  Are its semantics defined
somewhere?

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