diff -ur wget-1.8.2.orig/src/init.c wget-1.8.2/src/init.c
--- wget-1.8.2.orig/src/init.c	Wed Jan 15 19:23:23 2003
+++ wget-1.8.2/src/init.c	Wed Jan 15 21:54:32 2003
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@
 #endif
   { "input",		&opt.input_filename,	cmd_file },
   { "killlonger",	&opt.kill_longer,	cmd_boolean },
+  { "lamefs",		&opt.lame_fs,		cmd_boolean },
   { "limitrate",	&opt.limit_rate,	cmd_bytes },
   { "loadcookies",	&opt.cookies_input,	cmd_file },
   { "logfile",		&opt.lfilename,		cmd_file },
diff -ur wget-1.8.2.orig/src/main.c wget-1.8.2/src/main.c
--- wget-1.8.2.orig/src/main.c	Wed Jan 15 19:23:23 2003
+++ wget-1.8.2/src/main.c	Wed Jan 15 21:52:47 2003
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@
   -Y,  --proxy=on/off           turn proxy on or off.\n\
   -Q,  --quota=NUMBER           set retrieval quota to NUMBER.\n\
        --limit-rate=RATE        limit download rate to RATE.\n\
+  -f,  --lame-fs                create files with simple names.\n\
 \n"), stdout);
 #ifdef INET6
   fputs (_("\
@@ -276,6 +277,7 @@
     { "inet", no_argument, NULL, '4' },
     { "inet6", no_argument, NULL, '6' },
 #endif
+    { "lame-fs", no_argument, NULL, 'f' },
     { "mirror", no_argument, NULL, 'm' },
     { "no-clobber", no_argument, NULL, 141 },
     { "no-directories", no_argument, NULL, 147 },
@@ -373,7 +375,7 @@
       that the options with required arguments must be followed by a ':'.
       -- Dan Harkless <wget@harkless.org>] */
   while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "\
-hpVqvdkKsxmNWrHSLcFbEY:G:g:T:U:O:l:n:i:o:a:t:D:A:R:P:B:e:Q:X:I:w:C:",
+hpVqvdkKsxmNWrHSLcFbEfY:G:g:T:U:O:l:n:i:o:a:t:D:A:R:P:B:e:Q:X:I:w:C:",
 			   long_options, (int *)0)) != EOF)
     {
       switch (c)
@@ -515,6 +517,9 @@
 	case 'x':
 	  setval ("dirstruct", "on");
 	  break;
+	case 'f':
+	  setval ("lamefs", "on");
+	  break;
 
 	  /* Options accepting an argument: */
 	case 129:
diff -ur wget-1.8.2.orig/src/options.h wget-1.8.2/src/options.h
--- wget-1.8.2.orig/src/options.h	Wed Jan 15 19:23:23 2003
+++ wget-1.8.2/src/options.h	Wed Jan 15 21:34:10 2003
@@ -183,6 +183,8 @@
   int   cookies;
   char *cookies_input;
   char *cookies_output;
+  int   lame_fs;		/* create files storable on file system with
+				   limited charset */
 };
 
 #ifndef OPTIONS_DEFINED_HERE
diff -ur wget-1.8.2.orig/src/url.c wget-1.8.2/src/url.c
--- wget-1.8.2.orig/src/url.c	Wed Jan 15 19:23:23 2003
+++ wget-1.8.2/src/url.c	Wed Jan 15 21:55:43 2003
@@ -1389,12 +1389,47 @@
   return xstrdup (result);
 }
 
+/* Modify file name so it can be stored on lame file system such as 
+ * FAT used in some odd operating systems. */
+char *
+filename_for_lame_fs(char *name) {
+  const char allowed_chars[] = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890/_.-";
+  int size_diff = 0;
+  unsigned char *p1, *p2, *lame_name;
+
+  p1 = name;
+  while(*p1) {
+    if(strchr(allowed_chars, *p1) == NULL)
+      size_diff += 2;
+    p1++;
+  }
+
+  lame_name = xmalloc(strlen(name)+size_diff+1);
+  
+  p1 = name;
+  p2 = lame_name;
+  while(*p1) {
+    if(strchr(allowed_chars, *p1) == NULL) {
+      *p2++ = '_';
+      *p2++ = XDIGIT_TO_XCHAR (*p1 >> 4);
+      *p2++ = XDIGIT_TO_XCHAR (*p1 & 0xf);
+    } else {
+      *p2 = *p1;
+      p2++;
+    }
+    p1++;
+  }
+  *p2 = '\0';
+
+  return lame_name;
+}
+
 /* Create a unique filename, corresponding to a given URL.  Calls
    mkstruct if necessary.  Does *not* actually create any directories.  */
 char *
 url_filename (const struct url *u)
 {
-  char *file, *name;
+  char *file, *name, *tmp;
   int have_prefix = 0;		/* whether we must prepend opt.dir_prefix */
 
   if (opt.dirstruct)
@@ -1408,7 +1444,11 @@
       char *query = u->query && *u->query ? u->query : NULL;
       file = compose_file_name (base, query);
     }
-
+  if(opt.lame_fs) {
+    tmp = file;
+    file = filename_for_lame_fs(file);
+    /* xfree(tmp); shouldn't we free this? But it segfaults then. */
+  }
   if (!have_prefix)
     {
       /* Check whether the prefix directory is something other than "."