Reply to message from Wolfgang Pfeiffer on Wed, 13 Dec 2000, 02:23 <+0100>:
> Reply to message from Charles Galpin on Tue, 12 Dec 2000, 20:01 <-0500>:
>
> > I'd assume yes, but here is the info on the version I am using. Try here
> > first
> >
> > http://ftp.yars.free.net/projects/lftp/
> >
> > [ ... ]
>
> Thanks Charles, in the meantime I think it's possible the one I found is a
> Polish-Language version ... near the end there:
>
> duch.mimuw.edu.pl
> ^^
>
> [ ... ]
>
> I'll try tomorrow to find another version ...
> (too late at night now ...)
I found a 'lftp' version in the meantime in English (Red Hat on my machine
is in English ... although I really would have preferred the polish(ed)
version, because it seems being very fresh ... I guess a polish language
version probably will not be compatible with my English Red Hat version on
my box.)
But let me point to this: 'wget' does ftp *and* http -- I find it very
useful for downloading html-ized manuals: wget is able to follow links on
html-pages and then download them ... perhaps a bit complicated for
beginners as I am, but once understood it seems to be very fast and
extremely useful for people wanting to let jobs being done by the machine
that otherwise would have to be done by humans ... :)
If you want to test it:
to download a wget manual, you could try doing this with the following
command (the following 2 lines are *one* command ...)
wget -l 20 -t5 -r -L -np -nc -nh http://www.gnu.org/manual/wget-1.5.3
/html_chapter/wget_toc.html
With the last command to download this complete manual shouldn't take you
more than about 30-60 seconds with an ISDN line ... :)
... and for the sake of security of your machine: if you please check the
options of this command in man wget: I'm still a beginner with Linux ...
You probably will not find the '-np' option in this man page ... the GNU
Wget Manual says:
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`-np'
`--no-parent'
Do not ever ascend to the parent directory when retrieving
recursively.This is a useful option, since it guarantees that
only the files below a certain hierarchy will be downloaded.
See section Directory-Based Limits for more details.
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And Charles,
thanks again for your hint for 'lftp' ... I'm curious to study
man lftp
the next days.
Regards.
Wolfgang
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