On Thu, 23 May 2002, Henrik van Ginhoven wrote:

> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:49:42AM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 May 2002, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> > 
> > Now, something occurs to ME.  There really SHOULD be an alternate means of
> > prompting the user for a password (i.e. something which is not readily
> > visible through ps, (or saved to a history file) I mean REALLY.

See the wget info file. Search for "netrc". You put the password in a
file called ".netrc". I usually change that to "_netrc" when doing a
port to DOS. Make sure to have the correct permissions for your .netrc
file.
                             Doug

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