Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:26:37 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@ca.sandia.gov> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, cjclark@home.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, bmah@ca.sandia.gov Subject: Re: Web Download Message-ID: <19981219162637.A17321@ca.sandia.gov> In-Reply-To: <19981220101409.14856@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 10:14:09AM %2B1100 References: <199812172035.PAA17036@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <19981220101409.14856@welearn.com.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 10:14:09AM +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > > 2) There are a number of mirror type utilities in the ports. > > However, I am pressed for space on my hard drive (and > > actually would rather do this on a different machine) > > and think that an elaborate mirror utility is overkill. > > Are there any web utilities that would be reasonable for > > downlioading _ONE_ file a day? > > There's several good small file-getters, probably easier to figure out > and less hungry than lynx, but you need to make sure they're doing http > protocol for this particular file, don't you. /usr/bin/fetch, in the base FreeBSD distribution, will probably do the trick. On non-FreeBSD systems, I usually run GNU wget, which is in ports. Feed a URL to either of these programs and it'll go out and get it. Bruce. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCUAwUBNnxEPKjOOi0j7CY9AQHL9wP42s8nxR1XKAObd1H+crBIvt7MnK0OMFCA aHEDdrZID8zxDAaFwyBwIuOgOg0AZXJY2j42mxR+RKja5NfbvAXFyZjSd7Nc+hqA GSKr1z4fBc031F7DNa7Tk5WcyCc94ZNjSoUGM10dK8VuzfFpO62DzC9YEbqP1wBv JrXK6XfWCA== =6tkZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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