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Re: Weird wget behaviour


On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 11:56:39AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote:
>> > Marko Daris wrote:
>> > > I'm using cygwin's wget (1.8.2) to mirror some web sites... I found an
>> > > url which stops (cygwins) wget:
>> > > wget http://www.uga.edu/ethnobot/Con.html
>> > Oh, oh, I think I know what it is!  I bet it's because basename of the
>> > local filename is called "CON".  That's a reserved word in Windows.  It
>> > means console.
>> That would explain gettong the contents on screen, but not the hanging,
>> would it?
>> rlc
>
>It might, actually.  I suspect stat() & co are a bit broken with respect
>to special names (e.g., con, prn, and others).

I doubt it.  Maybe wget noticed that con.html existed and tried to read
something from it.

cgf

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