On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > - Don't ever use wget to get separate files from FTP. Inetd will kill > services that have more than 40 connects per 60 seconds... So that's why > I'm using ncftp in the background. Any FTP mirror worth their salt should have this disabled :P If you are feeling adventurous you could use the APT ftp download method, it would be fairly well suited to this actually. Docs are in one of the APT doc packages.. Jason