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Re: No Connections


Charles Hixson wrote:
> 
> It sounds like what's needed is approx. wget.  Does wget work under CygWin? 

Works under cygwin. See http://cygutils.netpedia.net/V1.1/ or try
Fabrice Popineau's native version (referenced in another message in this
thread).

--Chuck


> (I
> haven't tried it yet.)  Actually I'm thinking of using it as a poor substitute for
> the Debian *.debs file manager, but these don't seem to be available, or RPMs
> either, so I'm assuming that there may be problems with the approach.
> 
> I've never tried repeatedly doing a "wget -rc" , but it seems to me that it would
> check to see if the file had changed before downloading again (isn't that the
> effect of the -c option?), so if wget works from within CygWin, then one should be
> able to use wget to keep the download files in sync without causing excessive
> downloads.  But I sure want to check on this before trying to implement it ... the
> servers are busy enough already!
>

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