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Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:42:38 -0400
From:      Danny <nocmonkey@gmail.com>
To:        Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Alternative to "get"? Trying to download a file via HTTP (Solved via fetch)
Message-ID:  <addc34c6040811144258d996cd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040811203550.GD82824@abigail.blackend.org>
References:  <addc34c6040811132964cf8785@mail.gmail.com> <20040811203550.GD82824@abigail.blackend.org>

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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:35:50 +0200, Marc Fonvieille
<blackend@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 04:29:11PM -0400, Danny wrote:
> > I am running FreeBSD 4.9R. My goal is to download an .tar.gz file from
> > an HTTP site?
> >
> > I thought "get" would do that, but it's not installed (unless the
> > command is not get).
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> 
> fetch is what you want (fetch is in the base system).

Thank you Marc and everyone else who responded. I had forgotten about fetch. :)

It obviously worked like a dream.

...D



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