On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> At 6:18 PM -0800 on 3/31/00, Alain Farmer wrote:
> >Adrian: I am currently in the process of mirroring as
> >much of the FreeCard website as I can to
> >freecard.sourceforge.net ...
>
> I hope you have heard of `wget --mirror`
Adrian: Nope, and it's not the best solution anyway. I can use ftp -i and the
mget * command. Much faster than going via HTTP and I get precisely the files
I want. Besides, it's done now.
> >
> >Alain: I hope you started with the downloads and other
> >non-web-site stuff. I have just finished adapting the
> >links of the web site (e.g. to make them relative
> >instead of absolute). It's a go, starting now.
>
> wget can even do that for you <g>. Forget the option, though.
Adrian: Also done now anyway.
> >
> >Adrian: ... as that pesky application/octet-stream bug
> >is still a problem with the UFP server.
>
> wget can be told to ignore that.
Adrian: And ftp doesn't even see it. :)
