Imagine, if you will, a scenario not too far from any
of us...

Your mother in law calls. (Hereafter, MIL)  She just
bought a G5 and had your cousin set it up for her. 
And they�ve discovered iMovie.  Without saying another
word, you finally realize where you left that digicam
last Christmas.  No, you won�t tell your wife because
you don�t want to be punished twice for the same
crime.  But as dumb luck would have it, you get
spanked again anyway.

How�s that, you say?  The MIL has been filming Fifi
chowing down in the nitty-gritty kitty litter box
again.  You remember Fifi, don�t you?  That�s the
little smelly French thing your lovely wife grew up
with.  And wouldn�t the Mrs. just love to see Fifi
being naughty?  Of course she would!  So the old one
decides to e-mail your family the 50 meg movie using
her cable modem.  

No biggie, right?  Well, it would be no biggie if you
had DSL or a cable modem, but NO, you have a 56k modem
and the nearest junction box is FIVE MILES AWAY making
your fastest download speed a whopping 33.6k.   

You try to convince the MIL and your wife to have the
movie burned to a CD and mailed to your home.  Sanity
would then prevail, right?

Wrong.  Wifey wants the movie, and she wants it NOW.  
 

You know your ISP blocks e-mails with attachments over
5 meg.  You also know that the MIL has a really cheesy
personal web site on mac.com.  So you tell the MIL to
post accordingly and you�ll get busy with that
download.

You frantically search the web for a downloader
program and your heart stops.  There is a really cool
downloader on Sourceforge called Downloader for X
(dforx).  You look for the OS X port and (gasp!) there
is none. Considering all the other options, you
finally resign yourself to the knowledge that you�ll
be sleeping on the couch again tonight.

But this scenario doesn�t have to be!  Please port
dforx and spare men around the world from senseless
grief!


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