If that was the exact command, then yes.

That was the command that ysth linked to....except when I go back to c&p the proof, I notice that I omitted the '.'. In my browser, the combination of green text on mottled green background and the size of the font meant that the dot is next to invisible. Even now I know it's there, it's hard to distinguish it from a spec of dust on my screen. I only saw it at all because I overshot whilst highlighting the text this time and it stood out. (Yes. That's a long and elaborate excuse {blush}).

Once you get this up and finally running, it's even better than wget, because rsync will only transfer the deltas of changed files

Yes, I understand the logic behind rsync but that assumes that I am going to try and keep up to date on a regular basis. That is in itself a barrier to becoming involved. It's not a one-time give something back contribution. It signing up to an ongoing, direct debit commitment. A lifestyle. Becoming a "part of the community". For some, that's the greatest thing since sliced bread, but for many others Perl is just what they do at their day job, a means to and end, not a lifestyle.

Conversely, I return from eating my evening meal and wget has just worked: 

c:\Perl\src>wget -c http://public.activestate.com/pub/apc/perl-current
+-snap/perl-current-latest.tar.bz2
--17:55:32--  http://public.activestate.com/pub/apc/perl-current-snap/
+perl-current-latest.tar.bz2
           => `perl-current-latest.tar.bz2'
Resolving public.activestate.com... done.
Connecting to public.activestate.com[209.17.146.133]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 11,995,312 [application/x-bzip2]

100%[====================================>] 11,995,312     4.20K/s    
+ETA 00:00

18:42:00 (4.20 KB/s) - `perl-current-latest.tar.bz2' saved [11995312/1
+1995312]

[download]

Add

c:\Perl\src>u:bunzip2 perl-current-latest.tar.bz2
c:\Perl\src>tar -xvf perl-current-latest.tar

[download]

And I'm ready to go.

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