Again, forgot to send it to the list
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:31:14 +0000, Jonathan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 23:41:53 -0600 (CST), Steven M. Schweda > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > J: > > > > > I'd say that these error messages are less than ideally informative, > > > however: > > > > > > www.exeter-airport.co.uk: i/o error > > > > > > Cannot write to `www.exeter-airport.co.uk' (i/o error). > > > > Apparently this is what it says when the destination file already > > exists. Duh. Try deleting "home.html". It works for me. Please let > > me know if that's the problem at your end. > > The posted output was the first run on the system, so shouldn't be the > problem. > > > > > I don't know which is worse, the error message or the program logic. > > For a good time, I tried running it in a directory on a more capable > > file system (VMS ODS5 instead of ODS2). The first time, it said that it > > produced "`home.html'". The second time, it said that it produced > > "`home.html.2'". Most likely, this is not a valid file name on your > > system. It certainly isn't on a VMS ODS2 file system (which is why I > > got the failure originally), but it is valid on an ODS5 file system, so > > it works there. (Of course, VMS handles it a bit differently, treating > > "home.html.2" as if it were "home.html;2", that is, version 2 of > > "home.html", which is an amazing fluke, certainly unanticipated by the > > original coder.) > > > > I'm sure that a UNIX system would think that this was all swell, but > > if you can't take multiple dots in a file name, you're in trouble (and > > you get few clues from the program). I haven't looked at the logic yet, > > but it appears that if the unique-ifying ".N" suffix doesn't help, it > > falls back to the URL, and that has more dots in it than "home.html.2". > > (At least that would account for the name in the final error message, > > instead of "home.html*".) > > Again, I doubt this is the issue as this is run on a windows system > and when testing the command on my windows PC it created files with > the .N suffix without problem. > > Thanks anyway, > Jon > > > > > I'll see if I can track this back a bit more. In my VMS port of > > Wget, I already changed some code which was tacking on a ".orig" to some > > file name or other (so it would use "_orig", instead). Sounds like > > there's another similar spot to pound on. Whee. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Steven M. Schweda (+1) 651-699-9818 > > 382 South Warwick Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Saint Paul MN 55105-2547 > > >
