> I am experimenting with the command line version and have 
> problem to use the .httrackrc File. 

Named httrackrc on w2k (no leading .)

> The .httrackrc file is in the same directory and has the 
> contents:
> footer 'My Footer'
> deny */b.*
> The resulting hts-log.txt and doit.log files do not have 
> any indication, that the contents of the rc file are used.

The doit.log should contains httrackrc commands, loaded on 
startup - **EXCEPT** when continuing/updating a mirror 
(because it would then load the httrackrc options each rime)