wget syntax questtion

[Terry R Linhardt]

I am a new user of wget.  I love its flexibility. However, I have a 
syntax question. (And yes, I *did* read the manual). But, I am still 
doing something incorrectly.

My goal:  To download some files in a directory, but not all of the files.

As an examle, let's say the target directory has the following files in it:

    file-AA.1
    file-AA.2
    file-AA.3
    file-BB.1
    file.BB.2
    file.BB.3
    file.CC.1

Let's assume I want to download all files EXCEPT those containing BB.

I have already tried the following:

       wget -r -R BB  http://www.host.com/path/to/files

I thought the -R option would exclude all files with the 'BB' as part of 
the name. But, it did not.

Advice or help would be appreciated.

Thanks..Terry