following symlinks?!?

[Paul McDermott]

hello everybody, and thankyou for all of the assistance to my recent
questions.  I have yet another question.  I am trying to download debian
packages from an ftp site with ncftp or wget.  I am having a problem in
getting files that are symlinked to other places.  I cannot for the life
of me find out what flag to turn on or off to get ncftp or wget to follow
symlinks.  If anyone could and/or would help I would greatly appreciated
it.
Paul