On 10/08/12 21:17, Mark Trickett wrote: [...]
That wget invocation did work, after a fashion. I do have the entire current digital copy of Linux Journal, but the filename was mangled. I need to print the wget man page, and read carefully, several times. Why do I not need to tell wget to continue for some downloads, but do for others. There are also some strange things going on with the headers that the proffered invocation from a firefox plugin sets up. I shall have to look over and scratch my head yet again.
I find lftp a robust solution. You can use it as an interactive ftp client, but invoked with the "-f <script file>" argument is often more convenient as you can do all the setup stuff like cd-ing, and once written it can simply be tweaked and re-used over and over. Great for fetching the latest distro isos and checksums. It does preserve the filename and time stamp, and "get -c" will normally continue a broken download.