> From: bill lam > > On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Sherlock Ric wrote: > > The web/gethttp addon has been released. > > "http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Addons/web/gethttp/"; > > > > It is basically a cover for Wget or cURL (depending on your > > platform) which simplifies retrieving the contents of URIs. > > FYI there is a wget replacement called 'axel' in linux. eg > instead of 'wget uri' it can be done as 'axel -a uri' > > The main advantage of axel is that it uses multiple parallel > connections to speed up downloading. > > You may search to see if it is available in ubuntu.
Thanks Bill, I may look into it. The advantage of wget is that it is installed with the Windows version of J and is also available on pretty much all (?) Linux distributions - that keeps things simple! Regards, Ric ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
