Legatus wrote:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 16:57, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Way back when I was running whendoze (around 10 years ago), I had a
shareware program called File Hound. One of the many features that I liked
about that program is that if I had it running while browsing the internet,
and I right click on something and choose "copy link location", File Hound
would take it from there and fetch the object of that link, in the
background, while I continued surfing. It even cached subsequent links and
got to them as soon as it could.
I've been trying to think of how I might be able to do something like that
in linux. wget is just as tenacious as File Hound for files whose download
keeps breaking. I think there's a way to tell wget not to bother fetching
duplicates. What I'm not sure about is how to get wget to run like a
daemon, and listen for copied links. Any ideas?
Sure seems a lot of over thinking is going on in this thread. KDE has kget
in the kdenetwork package, and there is gwget for gnome at
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gwget/. They both handle scenarios like this.
Nice little gui apps that run in your notification area.
That even has a firefox extension, but the page is broken for me:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gwget/FireGet-0.6.xpi
Is it just me?
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