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Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 13:40:02 -0700
From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn AT earthlink DOT net>
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It sounds like what's needed is approx. wget.  Does wget work under CygWin? (I
haven't tried it yet.)  Actually I'm thinking of using it as a poor substitute for
the Debian *.debs file manager, but these don't seem to be available, or RPMs
either, so I'm assuming that there may be problems with the approach.

I've never tried repeatedly doing a "wget -rc" , but it seems to me that it would
check to see if the file had changed before downloading again (isn't that the
effect of the -c option?), so if wget works from within CygWin, then one should be
able to use wget to keep the download files in sync without causing excessive
downloads.  But I sure want to check on this before trying to implement it ... the
servers are busy enough already!

Earnie Boyd wrote:

> --- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 12:29:03PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > >--- Charles Hixson <charleshixsn AT earthlink DOT net> wrote:
> > >> No, I don't have IE5 installed, but I can connect to the sites via
> > Netscape.
> > >>
> > >
> > >Setup uses techniques used by IE5, I suggest that you at least install and
> > get
> > >working IE5 before attempting the install.  Or, download each package
> > manually,
> > >be cautious of the Netscape filename mangling and do a local install from
> > >setup.exe.
> >
> > FWIW, I've tried to accomodate browser filename mangling in recent versions
> > of
> > setup.
> >
>
> This is so unreliable I don't see how you can accomodate this.  E.G.: If I
> right click and choose save as I get a file ending in _tar.gz; but, if I click
> the file name and choose the save in the dialogue I get a file name ending in
> _tar.ARC.
>
> Cheers,
>
> =====
> ---
>    Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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