🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 15:40:49 GMT, ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com (Phred)
wrote:

>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?
>
>Only needs to be very simple.  Bells and whistles not required; just 
>the ability to point to a page, select the files, and download to a 
>selected directory.
>
>Something that works under Windows 9x/ME/2000/XP would be great!
>Failing that, just ME/XP would be good.  And, failing that, just XP 
>would be acceptable.

In my experience, multiple simultaneous downloads from the same server
tend to take longer than automated sequential downloads.  Firefox
allows Ctrl click to activate a link in a background tab, but the
cross platform standard tool - if you know the URLs or want all the
files on a page - for this sort of thing is wget.  wget retrieves the
files sequentially and is very configurable (and free).


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T.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu)