On 12 Jul 00, at 13:09, Sudhakar Chandra wrote:
> Ewwww. The search interfaces provided by lycos et al are extremely
> non-standard. Don't.
Yup. And they don't even have a setting where you can get all the listings
in one page and nothing like a text based search. That's the reason my HTML
tag remover is unable to clean up and identify every site that turns up.
> If you are writing something for downloading software from FTP sites, how
> about hooking upto Freshmeat / RpmFind / packages.debian.org / Sunsite ?
> Probably a much easier solution.
I would still have to give the package name and there would be no mirror
and ping to find fastest. Freshmeat and Debian searchforms are ok, but
rpmfind, YUCK. I wish, things were more organised over there.
> One thing to keep in mind is the fact that the name of a particular file
> might not be any indicator of what the file contains. Take, for example,
> Netscape Communicator. The file that you download for WinDOS is named
> something like cc32e453.exe
Suppose I know the exact name of the package, feed it in and does the
trick. The prick is that my favourite windows adware downloader seems to
manage this whole thing with minimal fuss and acheives 90-98%of my
bandwidth while d'loading. Now that gives me a BIG reason not to use Linux
to go online, does it.
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