Well, here's a secret... if you have shell access, use LYNX if you can ONLY
get it via HTTP, or if you know the FTP address, download it to your shell
account via FTP and then back down to your system. That solves two problems:
1) what else do you do while your system is (pretty much ) tied up
downloading a HUGE file (after all, do you REALLY want to share your
precious bandwidth with something OTHER than that download???) 2) how to
make sure you get it ALL w/o getting kicked off. BTW, it would probably be
best to telnet in after establishing a PPP connection, otherwise you're
still stuck doing nothing while you're downloading the file. ;-)
John
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] download mess-want WP8 more than most things
> Hy, thanks for your reply. I finally learned to press the shift key,
> and that works fine. Now I just need to keep my ISP from cutting me off
> before the download is complete.
> adios, Steve W
>
> --- Irv Mullins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > subject: [newbie] download mess-want WP8 more than
> > most things
> > >
> > > Dear Abby,
> > > I keep trying to download WordPerfect 8 for Linux.
> > When I click on the
> > > download button at the site --download.com --I am
> > switched immediately
> > > to a gray screen scrolling code. When I check this
> > hours later, it
> > > appears downloading is complete, but damned if I
> > can find the stuff
> > > downloaded. Shouldn't I be given a chance to name
> > the file to which I
> > > am downloading? Am I doing something wrong?
> > > adios, Steve W.
> >
> > Actually, if you're using Netscape, you can hold
> > down shift and click
> > on the link, that will work.
> > If you're useing KFM, you are out of luck. I could
> > find no combination
> > that would successfully download any files from
> > them. Even setting the
> > user agent to Mozilla didn't help. The cgi-scripts
> > they use screw up the
> > works.
> >
> > Irv
> >
>
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