On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:07:34PM -0400, Mike Duttera wrote: > Hey all! > For a while now I've been trying to figure out how one gets files from > the SIMTEL shareware site at http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/ given the way > they've reorganized their site a year or so ago. I can't seem to get an > actual URL that references the actual shareware file zip file I want to > fetch. Rather, the web pages I fetch seem to lead one around in a circle > without ever giving one the URL for the actual file! I could fetch it > with standard GET commands using a WWW4MAIL server if I had the reference > to the location of the actual file. Just putting in the file name under > that directory path doesn't seem to work. Has anyone figured a way to do > this via WWW4MAIL servers. For files I really want I've been able to get > away with accessing sites referenced as the site of the programs authors > in some cases but it sure would be easier to to directly get everything > from the simtel site itself as I get regular announcements of new files > they get in. Doesn't do me any good to go to a supposedly centralized > repository of files if I have to access multiple subdirectory pages to > search for a lead to where I can get the file at a site OTHER than the > SIMTEL site. > Thanks for any help in advance, > Mike
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