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Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 23:03:53 +0200
From: Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6nsson?= <c DOT christian DOT joensson AT telia DOT com>
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To: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn AT earthlink DOT net>
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Subject: Re: No Connections
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no need to have wget under cygwin, it works under plain MS, thanks to Fabrice
Popineau

ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/tex/win32-beta/wget.exe

Cheers,

/ChJ


Charles Hixson wrote:

> 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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