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On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Howard Latham wrote:

> "Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
> news:2sqev6F1ljko0U1@uni-berlin.de...
> > G'day mates,
> >
> > One of my common needs is to download several data files from a web
> > page.  Using MSIE 6 I seem to be limited to selecting one file at a
> > time.  This is a bit of a nuisance as it requires interrupting other
> > work to go back to the page to select the next in line, etc etc.
> >
> > It occurs to me that there *should* be some simple way to do this -- 
> > maybe even within MSIE itself (but, if so, it escapes me 8-).
> >
> > Does anyone know an application or script (run from a batch file or
> > command line would be *very* convenient :) that can do this sort of
> > thing, please?
> 
> 
> wget.exe
> 
> 
> write  a batch file that runs through and downloads the files by url..
> 
> simple.

That's the third recommendation I have seen for wget.  Could I add a
fourth?

One short batch file fetched a complete archive of my public web site.
Actually, only the last line was really needed but the first few lines
set the path for me, changed the video palette to one readable on
my dim monitor and cleared the screen to a readable colour combination
so I could see wget's progress without straining my eyes:

@echo off
call c:\WINDOWS\p.bat
c:\utils\vga pal c:\utils\win2.pal
call cl
@echo on
G:\utils\Win\wget -r -I /~af380 -nH --cut-dirs=1 http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/index.html

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