Matthew Toseland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> No, most browsers will ask you where to save, then open a "download"
> window, if you click on a link to a file with an unknown MIME type, when
> in a web page, regardless of which OS you are using.

OK, but I was talking about how I personally download files.  Which
is to right click the URL, select "copy link location", then paste
the URL into an rxvt window after typing "wget ".

If you guys could get *that* to work, without any Javascript getting
in the way, or splitfile dialogs, I'd be an *extremely* happy little
Freeneter! :)  (But I don't expect that to happen.)

Of course that doesn't work right now -- you have to wade through
a fairly clumsy interface and press a second button just to *start*
the splitfile download -- and that button isn't visible unless you
scroll the top frame downward! -- and then you *still* have to deal
with the web browser's dialogs.  So right now, from my point of
view, the interface is about as bad as it could possibly be, except
if you added mandatory Javascript to it.  (Not that you'd do that.)

Anyway... is there a point to this?  Probably not.

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