On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Clarence Verge wrote: >> Pete wrote: >> > >> > <gripe> >> > With A164 on RAMdisk, space is at a premium. After D/Ling and saving a >> > multi-megabyte module or mp3, I find my free disk space to be displayed >> > as "0". Were it not for the "F8/xSwap" bug, I would simply flush the >> > cache. >> Fair gripe. >> Same situation here. To download a 1.5 Mb floppy means I must have 3 Mb >> available. Sometimes that's just not possible. I would much prefer a DIRECT >> download to the SAVE location. 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. [ So, Michael Polak, yes, having Arachne generate a working WATTCP.CFG is a good idea ] 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 (Alt-E) 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
