> Each line in your links.txt is a list of different mirror urls for the
> same package separated by '%20'.
> This should take the first link from every line and pass it to wget:
> cat links.txt | sed -e 's/%20.*//' | xargs -n 1 wget
> or alternatively:
> sed -e 's/%20.*//' <links.txt >links1.txt
> wget -i links1.txt
> 
> Eugene.

Thank you, that seems to be working great.  Should I update the wiki? 
It says I should do this on the networkless machine:

emerge -fp package1 package2 2> links.txt
 
and this on the networked machine:

wget -i links.txt

and that's what I did.

- Grant
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