Hi Folks,
On Wed, 28 May 2003 12:54:08 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2003 08:40:53 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:
>> So I put "pause" between just about every line, and guess what !
>> I consistently get: bad host
>> And, of course, when looking for the downloaded news, I get:
>> inputfile not found.
> Naturally...
>> So, yet again, its Microsofts's fault !
> It may be the system your ISP is using. I had no trouble getting the
> newsgroups, so I suspect the problem is not at MicroSnot's end.
Possibly.
So I tried with my secondary ISP, totally different servers and
software, etc..
Exactly the same - bad host, repeated many times before I stopped
trying.
> But try the following. I've downloaded and unzipped the suggested files,
> but I haven't tried anything with them as yet. See his URL at the end of
> the quote.
I don't actually need to read any news groups. It is the fact that it
is a de-facto plugin for Arachne that makes me try stuff. Arachne is
great as a sort of desktop for all sorts of stuff, both offline and on.
For an example, I have been able to configure WGET to act as a downloader
for any file (or whole website), as one of Arachne's "features", and also
to run (from a click-on) to first check if updated, if so then download,
the virus signatures for F-Prot, and also to check if the main program has
been updated, and if so - get it too. The advantage here is that WGET will
automatically resume broken downloads, which Arachne doesn't.
(Yet ? Glenn ?) Like a DOS version of GetRight. :)
I am not clever enough to turn that into a proper APM, but the end
result is the same.
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke
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