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I've never had a problem passing arg's to aliases. Consider the RH default, which aliases 'ls' to 'ls --color'..

Perhaps the problem is a "shell specific", one. In which case, we could chalk it up...

Are you able to use a different text mode download tool? You don't mention what OS you're on, but if, as I suspect, you're a linux user, then you should have easy access to wget or curl, which would...

The first thing that springs to mind would be a shell script using netcat, but I haven't worked in Tru64 in several years, and kind of doubt that netcat even exists for your environment.

Anyone?

Dude! That's a nice little alias.

I'm an alias junkie.. I'll make sure I add that one ;)

Cheers

bash for me (although the /bin location is rather dubious)

As a mac/linux/sun admin, I like that it seems to have the least cross-platform issues. Plus, as previously stated, the vi-style history...