On Thu, 29 May 2003 11:30:07 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:
>> 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. Hmmm... so some of us can do it, and some can't. It still sounds like something in the middle of the link, rather than at one end or the other. > 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. Sounds useful! > (Yet ? Glenn ?) Like a DOS version of GetRight. :) Yep. -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
