LS, I've uploaded a 2nd try, simplified a lot. Thanks to Yaakov for his feedback.
If ok this should supersede 1.1.8r5648-1, which should be left as previous. fetching all in one go: wget -r -np -nH -x --cut-dirs=2 -R index*,*.css ,.gif \ http://members.quicknet.nl/ar.burgers/cygwin17/fltk fetching individual files: wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=2 \ http://members.quicknet.nl/ar.burgers/cygwin17/fltk/fltk-1.1.10-1-src.tar.bz2 \ http://members.quicknet.nl/ar.burgers/cygwin17/fltk/libfltk1.1/libfltk1.1-1.1.10-1.tar.bz2 \ http://members.quicknet.nl/ar.burgers/cygwin17/fltk/libfltk1.1/setup.hint \ http://members.quicknet.nl/ar.burgers/cygwin17/fltk/libfltk-devel/libfltk-devel-1.1.10-1.tar.bz2 \ http://members.quicknet.nl/ar.burgers/cygwin17/fltk/libfltk-devel/setup.hint \ http://members.quicknet.nl/ar.burgers/cygwin17/fltk/libfltk-doc/libfltk-doc-1.1.10-1.tar.bz2 \ http://members.quicknet.nl/ar.burgers/cygwin17/fltk/libfltk-doc/setup.hint \ http://members.quicknet.nl/ar.burgers/cygwin17/fltk/setup.hint wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=2 \ http://members.quicknet.nl/ar.burgers/cygwin17/fltk_gdi/fltk_gdi-1.1.10-1-src.tar.bz2 \ http://members.quicknet.nl/ar.burgers/cygwin17/fltk_gdi/libfltk1.1-gdi/libfltk1.1-gdi-1.1.10-1.tar.bz2 \ http://members.quicknet.nl/ar.burgers/cygwin17/fltk_gdi/libfltk1.1-gdi/setup.hint \ http://members.quicknet.nl/ar.burgers/cygwin17/fltk_gdi/setup.hint I hope the lines of the wget command won't wrap on sending .. Teun