From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 19 16:27:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09885 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:27:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stennis.ca.sandia.gov (stennis.ca.sandia.gov [146.246.243.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09780 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:27:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@stennis.ca.sandia.gov) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by stennis.ca.sandia.gov (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA17328; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:26:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19981219162637.A17321@ca.sandia.gov> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:26:37 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" To: Sue Blake , cjclark@home.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions , bmah@ca.sandia.gov Subject: Re: Web Download References: <199812172035.PAA17036@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <19981220101409.14856@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-md5; boundary=5vNYLRcllDrimb99 X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <19981220101409.14856@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 10:14:09AM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 10:14:09AM +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > > 2) There are a number of mirror type utilities in the ports. > > However, I am pressed for space on my hard drive (and=20 > > actually would rather do this on a different machine) > > and think that an elaborate mirror utility is overkill. > > Are there any web utilities that would be reasonable for > > downlioading _ONE_ file a day? >=20 > There's several good small file-getters, probably easier to figure out > and less hungry than lynx, but you need to make sure they're doing http > protocol for this particular file, don't you. /usr/bin/fetch, in the base FreeBSD distribution, will probably do the trick. On non-FreeBSD systems, I usually run GNU wget, which is in ports. Feed a URL to either of these programs and it'll go out and get it. Bruce. --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCUAwUBNnxEPKjOOi0j7CY9AQHL9wP42s8nxR1XKAObd1H+crBIvt7MnK0OMFCA aHEDdrZID8zxDAaFwyBwIuOgOg0AZXJY2j42mxR+RKja5NfbvAXFyZjSd7Nc+hqA GSKr1z4fBc031F7DNa7Tk5WcyCc94ZNjSoUGM10dK8VuzfFpO62DzC9YEbqP1wBv JrXK6XfWCA== =6tkZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5vNYLRcllDrimb99-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message