I came across this fantastic utility. Called WGET, it is a freely
available network utility to retrieve files using HTTP and FTP.
Wget has many features to make retrieving large files or mirroring
entire Web or FTP sites easy, but the most important one is :
* resume aborted downloads, using REST and RANGE
The MS-DOS binary is available from Doug Kaufman at
http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/index.html
and the offical WGET site is at
http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~prikryl/wget.html
To use wget, there MUST be a packet driver loaded (like EPPPD used
by Arachne), and you should have a working WATTCP.CFG file.
The WATTCP.CFG file must have correct information as to
your IP address, Gateway IP address, and domain nameservers.
If you use dynamic IP addreessing and can't use BOOTP,
then these will have to be entered each time.
For Arachne users, once the WATTCP.CFG file is edited for their ISP,
you can shell from Arachne and run WGET like this
wget http://www.opus.co.tt/dave/dfilter/dflter25.zip
or put several links in a text file (say quickpad.txt) like this :
wget -i c:\arachne\quickpad.txt
You can therefore automate downloads :
* Get several download links from the web with Arachne and paste them
into a text file (DOWNLOAD.TXT)
* Then exit Arachne without hanging up.
* have a batch file (DOWNLOAD.BAT) in C:\ARACHNE like this :
@echo off
cd wget
WGET -i c:\arachne\quickpad.txt -c
cd..
arachne -u
Note that I've put WGET and its WATTCP.CFG file in C:\ARACHNE\WGET
The -c option allows you to resume the download where you left off.
So if something happens while you're downloading, the next time you
go online, you can continue where you left off (not all servers
support this ability, I tested the resume capability with Simtel
which worked)
The "arachne -u" line hangs up the modem.
It should be relatively easy to create a DGI to be able to be called from
Arachne. WGET was ported using DJGPP so it needs a 386 or higher to run.
Dev Teelucksingh
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Interesting DOS programs at http://www.opus.co.tt/dave
Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society at http://www.ttcsweb.org
