If u find yourself having to download again after u have downloaded abt
99.9% adn the line gets cut off (we all know how it feels)..u can try
using wget (if u know the url)...if i am not wrong wget comes with the
stock red hat and thus mandrake..i hope they did not pull it out of
venus/rh6...wget supports resuming so it will download from where u
left off previously...(if the download site supports it)..
Have fun!
On 22 Jun, John Aldrich wrote:
> 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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