Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:49:52 -0700 From: David Feig <dfeig@whistle.com> To: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> Cc: "'Craig Barrett'" <barrett@physci.uct.ac.za>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Downloading Message-ID: <37EAA080.C3ABBDAD@whistle.com> References: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105C96@site2s1>
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Christopher Michaels wrote: > Your web browser is mangling the files. Use a real ftp program instead, > such as CuteFTP, AbsoluteFTP, WSFTP, etc... Heck, windows actually comes > with a command line "ftp" program. Right, the command line version should work fine, and should be intuitive to most FreeBSD command line ftp users. The commands are all the same. Things to watch out for: It doesn't support passive mode and I don't think it works with the multi-file commands like mget. CuteFTP works great, although the UI is a bit overdone (easy things are hard, hard things are easy.) > > Those little download icons are created by your web browser and who knows > how they actually download the file. > > -Chris > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Craig Barrett [SMTP:barrett@physci.uct.ac.za] > > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 6:36 AM > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Downloading > > > > Hi > > > > I've downloaded the 3.2 release, but have been unable to get a working > > version of bin.cc. All the ftp sites I've been to I've had to get it by > > doing a "Save Link As..." because there's no "Download" icon next to the > > file. I tried downloading one of the other files this way and > > discovered that it didn't work either, so this must be the problem. Is > > it possible that this file could be emailed to me ? > > > > Cheers > > Craig > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- _______________________________________________________________ David Feig | Whistle Communications, Inc. | 650.577.7151 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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