We be trying all these things pretty soon. I don't know if I still have
minicom and lynx on 6.0. Will check it out. adios, Steve
--- John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, here's a secret... if you have shell access,
> use LYNX if you can ONLY
> get it via HTTP, or if you know the FTP address,
> download it to your shell
> account via FTP and then back down to your system.
> That solves two problems:
> 1) what else do you do while your system is (pretty
> much ) tied up
> downloading a HUGE file (after all, do you REALLY
> want to share your
> precious bandwidth with something OTHER than that
> download???) 2) how to
> make sure you get it ALL w/o getting kicked off.
> BTW, it would probably be
> best to telnet in after establishing a PPP
> connection, otherwise you're
> still stuck doing nothing while you're downloading
> the file. ;-)
> John
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 9:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] download mess-want WP8 more
> than most things
>
>
> > Hy, thanks for your reply. I finally learned to
> press the shift key,
> > and that works fine. Now I just need to keep my
> ISP from cutting me off
> > before the download is complete.
> > adios, Steve W
> >
> > --- Irv Mullins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > subject: [newbie] download mess-want WP8 more
> than
> > > most things
> > > >
> > > > Dear Abby,
> > > > I keep trying to download WordPerfect 8 for
> Linux.
> > > When I click on the
> > > > download button at the site --download.com --I
> am
> > > switched immediately
> > > > to a gray screen scrolling code. When I check
> this
> > > hours later, it
> > > > appears downloading is complete, but damned if
> I
> > > can find the stuff
> > > > downloaded. Shouldn't I be given a chance to
> name
> > > the file to which I
> > > > am downloading? Am I doing something wrong?
> > > > adios, Steve W.
> > >
> > > Actually, if you're using Netscape, you can hold
> > > down shift and click
> > > on the link, that will work.
> > > If you're useing KFM, you are out of luck. I
> could
> > > find no combination
> > > that would successfully download any files from
> > > them. Even setting the
> > > user agent to Mozilla didn't help. The
> cgi-scripts
> > > they use screw up the
> > > works.
> > >
> > > Irv
> > >
> >
> >
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