On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 09:58 -0400, David Boles wrote: > on 10/8/2007 2:21 AM, Ric Moore wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 11:22 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > >> I decided to get the F7 live CD .iso file and use wget. I did the > >> first part using my web browser and I found a source for this file in CA > >> which is as close as possible. I had to find a source that uses FTP. As > >> the man pages say wget will only work with a FTP source. > > > > GET(1) GNU Wget > > WGET(1) > > > > NAME > > Wget - The non-interactive network downloader. > > > > SYNOPSIS > > wget [option]... [URL]... > > > > DESCRIPTION > > GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files > > from > > the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as > > retrieval through HTTP proxies. > > > > ... nuff said, Ric > > > For the CLI challenged there are GUI frontends for wget. ;-) Gwget > (GNOME) and Kwget (KDE). Never tried the KDE one, not even sure if it > available in Fedora, but the Gwget works fine. > It would help all us overworked schleps if you would call the program gwget rather than Gwget. It keeps us from thinking we have lost our minds. -- ======================================================================= You will lose your present job and have to become a door to door mayonnaise salesman. =======================================================================keeps Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
