Re: Can't find how to fetch from the web

2008-08-15 Thread Garret
are you talking about using wget to download files or webpages? all you have to do is open the setup.exe and the new package you want is under WEB (select)wget then google wget to see how to use it... it pretty simple and a goog way to get data or other things from the web. I hope this what

Re: Can't find how to fetch from the web

2008-08-15 Thread Garret
are you talking about using wget to download files or webpages? all you have to do is open the setup.exe and the new package you want is under WEB (select)wget then google wget to see how to use it... it pretty simple and a good way to get data or other things from the web. I hope this what

RE: Can't find how to fetch from the web

2008-08-15 Thread Mike Marchywka
] To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't find how to fetch from the web are you talking about using wget to download files or webpages? all you have to do is open the setup.exe and the new package you want is under WEB(select)wget then google wget to see how to use it... it pretty simple

RE: Can't find how to fetch from the web

2008-08-15 Thread Garret
. Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:50:21 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't find how to fetch from the web are you talking about using wget to download files or webpages? all you have to do is open the setup.exe and the new package you want is under WEB(select)wget

RE: Can't find how to fetch from the web

2008-08-15 Thread Dave Korn
Mike Marchywka wrote on 15 August 2008 17:56: btw, is there a known problem with lynx that causes it to die when the url is too long? There have been such problems in the past; I notice that the distro version we have is 2.8.5rel5, and there have been two buffer overflows fixed upstream

RE: Can't find how to fetch from the web

2008-08-15 Thread Mike Marchywka
Is there a server response that can provoke an abnormal termination ( want to say seg fault or access violation but can't remember)? Absolutely not! Why on earth would anyone want to let a remote server crash their software? No, you just get a nice friendly error status code (e.g. 404)

RE: Can't find how to fetch from the web

2008-08-15 Thread Mike Marchywka
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:02:38 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Can't find how to fetch from the web In my experience, I have never run into a URL that was too long. the only thing that I have had problems with in the past are, links timing out

Re: Can't find how to fetch from the web

2008-08-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 06:43:00AM +, Circular Function wrote: Believe me I have googled and read the faqs but I can't find how to download from the web. Go back to the main cygwin page at http://cygwin.com/ and read the section called Installing and Updating Cygwin. -- Unsubscribe info: