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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:56:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald AT landheer DOT com>
cc: Rolf Campbell <rcampbell AT tropicnetworks DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Weird wget behaviour
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On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:

> 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

It might, actually.  I suspect stat() & co are a bit broken with respect
to special names (e.g., con, prn, and others).
	Igor
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