James Keeline wrote:
--- Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But what I seem to recall is that FileHound
would try different port numbers. In fact, it may even have tried the
ftp port number automatically instead of the http port number, even when
you fed it an http URL. (Certainty of recollection on this point is
somewhat slim.)
I certainly miss that program.
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Ralph
For what it's worth, there's a description of FileHound with its features on
this page which may help people here determine how comparable it is to wget.
I guess I'll have to become familiar with wget. Can anyone point me to
configuration files or frontends? I'll check out the man page, but I
doubt that it will tell me much about frontends.
http://www.allabout.com/afs/software/filehound/
I hate having to let go of any program that is as good as that one.
In particular, the features page looks informative:
http://www.allabout.com/afs/software/filehound/features.htm
It seems to refer to manual throttling of the connection though perhaps it has
two settings for being in the foreground or background. The description seems
old since it suggests that most people are still using dialup. Those numbers
seem to be shrinking all the time. It would be very hard to maintain a Linux
system (updates, new code, etc) on a dialup connection.
James Keeline
Maybe the foreground or background thing is new or perhaps it refers to
being minimized or not. I distinctly remember minimizing it to load
more web pages to read, and then bringing it back up but leaving it
behind the browser window so I could read the pages I just got. I
always let FileHound soak the connection while I was reading since I
wasn't using the connection at that time anyway.
And one feature it had that I don't seem to see in the list was when I
copied a link to the clipboard, FileHound would automatically grab it
and start downloading it. (I do recall having to switch that option on
in the settings.) If the maximum number of current downloads was full,
then the new link would just be added to the queue.
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Ralph
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