Ralph Shumaker wrote:
About 10 years ago, when I was on w95, I had a program called
FileHound. It was the best downloader program I have ever used. It had
many switches you could configure to suit things more to your liking. I
set it to be *extremely* agressive with the bandwidth whenever the
program was not minimized, but to be very meager with the bandwidth when
minimized. If memory serves me, I was able to just point it to a file
on ftp://someSite.com/pathTo/file or http://someSite.com/pathTo/file and
it would figure out the rest. It wouldn't bother me beyond that. And
it was very aggressive. If it failed one way, it would try another. If
a download broke, it would automatically restart it (or in most cases,
would actually *resume* it).
I have never since seen a program that convenient *OR* that aggressive.
After 10 years, I would think that such things should become more
prevalent.
Why do the best things seem to devolve, or go extinct, or just not catch
on?
I miss that FileHound program. I wish the author would port it to Linux.
Anyone know of anything even close to it on Linux?
wget
wget is a command line program that does most of what you have
described, except the automatic throttling part. That can be handled
with nice. Use it like so:
wget http://someSite.com/pathTo/file
See the man page for further info. wget can be used to grab entire web
sites if desired.
Gus
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