Cygwin has supplied many ports of Unix (Linux) tools to the Windows
environment. Wget is one of them. It will get files from web sites for you
and you don't have to worry about file corruption.
For Windows users who is interested I have just added the Cygwin Windows
port of wget and supporting DLLs to my LRP page.
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/msensney/WGET.ZIP
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/msensney/CYGWIN1.ZIP
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/msensney/CYGINTL.ZIP
Download these files, unzip them and add them somewhere in your path.
You can then run "wget" from a DOS Window.
This program is a "Swiss Army Knife" web file grabber. Try the help command
to get an idea of what it can do.
wget --help ; massive help listing
For the purpose of just fetching a file from a web site, these 2 forms of
the command will work just fine.
wget -nd http://file.url ; fetch a file to your current directory
wget -O pathname http://file.url ; fetch a file and rename "pathname"
Enjoy.
Mike
