On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Robert L. Harris wrote: > silly thing downloaded to my shell, I can ftp it to my office and take > it home on a zip disk. Once I get the "potato" directory restored on ^^ 'on a Large Stack of zip disks' or maybe a CD-R or two. The recursive wget you describe will net several gigabytes. Read /usr/doc/apt/offline.text.gz for the right way to do this. Jason