Re: Multi-file selection and download using HTTP?

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From: Howard Latham
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 05:28

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"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.

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