Weird wget behaviour

Ronald Landheer-Cieslak ronald@landheer.com
Fri Apr 11 16:41:00 GMT 2003


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



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