Download managers in Linux (was) Re: [ilugd] only one reason

2004-04-18 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Surendra Verma wrote: there is a downloader manager program in kde and many would be familiar with it with many advanced features.i am using kdenetwork-kget for downloading and have downloaded files as big as 700 mbs with it. but the only problem is that it works only with konqueror browser

Re: [ilugd] only one reason

2004-04-18 Thread Surendra Verma
hi, there is a downloader manager program in kde and many would be familiar with it with many advanced features.i am using kdenetwork-kget for downloading and have downloaded files as big as 700 mbs with it. but the only problem is that it works only with konqueror browser and not with other

Re: [ilugd] only one reason

2004-04-18 Thread linuxlingam
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 17:08, R.Vijayaraghavan wrote: > > the progress bar came near the 80% mark and suddenly, d4x got stuck. i > waited for 20 mins, then had to kill it. tried to restart it, and wow, it > never woke up. those were 7.3 days and from that day, never tried to > download a file in

Re: [ilugd] only one reason

2004-04-18 Thread linuxlingam
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 13:43, R.Vijayaraghavan wrote: > I use WinXP only for one reason, downloading huge files which weigh more > than, say, 100MB. > > I have switched over to OOo from MS Office, switched over to Firebird > from IE, switched over to Tunderbird from OE ( i'm which step, LL ), > tha

Re: [ilugd] only one reason

2004-04-18 Thread R.Vijayaraghavan
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:18:13 +0530, "Sandeep Gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 13:43, R.Vijayaraghavan wrote: > > I just need a good download manager for linux. I had a very bad > > experience with d4x, so won't try in again. I liked the command-line > > managers, proz and w

Re: [ilugd] only one reason

2004-04-18 Thread Sandeep Gupta
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 13:43, R.Vijayaraghavan wrote: > I just need a good download manager for linux. I had a very bad > experience with d4x, so won't try in again. I liked the command-line > managers, proz and wget. But can I rely on them for huge downloads. and > are there any GUI's for wget and

RE: [ilugd] only one reason

2004-04-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> are there any GUI's for wget and proz. don't know about wget, but prozgui is there afaik. And yes, they can be used for downloading huge files too. I've downloaded full distros using wget. And proz supports downloading from multiple sites too, so its even better. gftp works too as an ftp client