Have you tried using the kde filemanager ? just enter the ftp address and
when the page loads just click the RPM package and let kpackage install
it.
Steve Winston wrote:
> We be trying all these things pretty soon. I don't know if I still have
> minicom and lynx on 6.0. Will check it out. adios, Steve
>
> --- John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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