On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 16:57, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Way back when I was running whendoze (around 10 years ago), I had a > shareware program called File Hound. One of the many features that I liked > about that program is that if I had it running while browsing the internet, > and I right click on something and choose "copy link location", File Hound > would take it from there and fetch the object of that link, in the > background, while I continued surfing. It even cached subsequent links and > got to them as soon as it could. > > I've been trying to think of how I might be able to do something like that > in linux. wget is just as tenacious as File Hound for files whose download > keeps breaking. I think there's a way to tell wget not to bother fetching > duplicates. What I'm not sure about is how to get wget to run like a > daemon, and listen for copied links. Any ideas? > > > You might like flashgot to fill in the blank. I don't know much about it, but just saw it and thought about this thread. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/220 -- JD Runyan Bob Hope - "You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake." -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
