> It seems to me that the -O option has wget touching the file > which wget then detects.
Close enough. With "-O", Wget opens the output file before it does any transfers, so when the program gets serious about the transfer, the file will exist, and that will confuse the "-nc" processing. This is just one more case of "-O" not working well with other options. The fixes for these problems (when possible) are generally much more complicated than simply not using "-O" with other options when it causes trouble. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven M. Schweda (+1) 651-699-9818 382 South Warwick Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] Saint Paul MN 55105-2547