$NetBSD: patch-ab,v 1.3 2002/01/19 15:31:44 jlam Exp $ --- GrabWeather.orig Fri Apr 16 17:41:53 1999 +++ GrabWeather @@ -38,19 +38,17 @@ $StationID = $ARGV[0]; $HTMLFileName = "$StationID.TXT"; + $FTP = "ftp -V -r 5"; $URL = "ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/$HTMLFileName"; $DataFileName = "$StationID.dat"; + # $FTP must be able to fetch URLs. # - # I think some of these wget command line options may cause problems - # for some people? Dont know why... (Perhaps they have a ~/.wgetrc file - # that overrides command line options?). - # - $GrabCmd = "wget --proxy=off --passive-ftp --tries 0 -q -O $home/.wmWeatherReports/$StationID.TXT $URL"; - system "$GrabCmd"; + $GrabCmd = "$FTP -o $home/.wmWeatherReports/$StationID.TXT $URL"; + system "$GrabCmd 2>/dev/null";