Re: [Bug-wget] wget on Windows 64-bit

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Fred Holmes" <address@hidden>

> At 10:53 AM 6/13/2012, David H. Lipman wrote:
>> WGET/32 works just fine under Win/64. I suggest just using the latest 
>> Windows version.
>> I'm using;  GNU Wget 1.13.4 built on mingw32.
>
> I've been running wget 1.11.4 just fine.  Windows binary.
>
> I downloaded wget 1.13.4 from:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/osspack32/downloads/detail?name=wget.exe&can=2&q=
>
> which link I found on Google.
>
> It doesn't work.  It seems to flash some error message too quickly to read 
> and exits.
>
> I presume I need a newer version of the ssl libaries??  The 1.13.4 manual 
> (html file)
> doesn't seem to mention them explicitly, nor does the download site cited 
> above.
>
> Explicitly, what libraries do I need to run wget 1.13.4?
>
> I did not remove my working wget 1.11.4 wget.exe file.  I named the new wget 
> as
> wget1134.exe and ran it that way.  That should work.
>
> System is Windows 2000.  Does wget 1.13.4 require a later system?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Fred Holmes

It is possible that Win2K it is no longer supported.  I suggest using a WGET 
version that 
is older, but doesn't perform SSL, like v1.8.


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