Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-20 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
Hello everyone =) So, the title says it all. Anyone know a nice download manager utility for OpenBSD? Something along the lines of downloader 4 X for linux, or maybe even something like flashget/getright from the Windows world. I get the feeling that a nice download manager is a rare sight in the

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-20 Thread Marco Peereboom
How about ftp? On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:14:33AM -0300, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: > Hello everyone =) > > So, the title says it all. Anyone know a nice download manager utility > for OpenBSD? Something along the lines of downloader 4 X for linux, or > maybe even something like flashget/getright

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-20 Thread Mark Shroyer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:14:33AM -0300, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: > So, the title says it all. Anyone know a nice download manager utility > for OpenBSD? Something along the lines of downloader 4 X for linux, or > maybe even something like flashget/getright from the Windows world. I > get the fee

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-20 Thread Maxime DERCHE
Hello. I don't actually see what you call a "download manager" but I personnaly like the one included in Firefox. And wget can do great things too. Maxime DERCHE Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: > Hello everyone =) > > So, the title says it all. Anyone know a nice download manager utility > for OpenB

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-20 Thread Jason Beaudoin
wget? and no..your subject does not say it all..I interpreted that as file manager, as in mc, xfe, nautilus, etc.. On 3/20/07, Leonardo Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everyone =) > > So, the title says it all. Anyone know a nice download manager utility > for OpenBSD? Something a

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-20 Thread Rafael Almeida
On 3/21/07, Mark Shroyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But for what it's worth, I'd recommend the command line utility wget over anything. pkg_add wget and you're good to go. I second that. Wget is a great software! You can even use the mozilla cookies to keep the section of some site you're visit

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-20 Thread vinceNET
am I missing something? why not just use a firefox extension like downthemall? I haven't used a stand alone downloader since netscape was king. On Mar 20, 2007, at 9:00 PM, Mark Shroyer wrote: > Downloader 4 X,

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-20 Thread Mark Shroyer
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:23:32PM -0700, vinceNET wrote: > am I missing something? why not just use a firefox extension like > downthemall? I use wget because, probably due to the unhealthy number of extensions that I keep loaded into Firefox, browser crashes are pretty common on my machine. Th

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-21 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Others have recommended wget. I strongly recommend it as well, there are loads of ways to use it: http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/wget.1.html curl also is quite useful. I also highly recommend ncftp. -Lars Lars NoodC)n ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Ensure access to your data now a

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-21 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
Ahh, sorry, I did write FILE manager instead of DOWNLOAD manager :D I need more coffee... Yeah, wget is great, I use it a lot, but I'm looking for something more... graphical. Being able to have lots of downloads in a nice queue list is a must for me... I mean, I don't want to have tons of mp3's

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-21 Thread Thomas Leveille
look for gwget, kwget or kwebget which are wget frontends. I don't think any of them is in the port tree though, feel free to contribute :) On 3/21/07, Leonardo Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ahh, sorry, I did write FILE manager instead of DOWNLOAD manager :D I need more coffee... Yeah,

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-21 Thread Manuel Ravasio
--- Leonardo Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone =) > > So, the title says it all. Anyone know a nice download manager utility > for OpenBSD? wget ? The fish are biting. Get more visitors

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-21 Thread Marco Peereboom
Anyone saying this has not used openbsd's ftp. On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:11:38AM +0100, Thomas Leveille wrote: > look for gwget, kwget or kwebget which are wget frontends. > > I don't think any of them is in the port tree though, feel free to > contribute :) > > On 3/21/07, Leonardo Rodrigues

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-21 Thread Paul Irofti
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 05:50:56AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > Anyone saying this has not used openbsd's ftp. > I've seen many people mentioning ftp as a good download manager. I'm a bit confused on this issue: - a download manager is supposed to be generic no matter what protocol is use

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-24 Thread Siju George
On 3/21/07, Leonardo Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello everyone =) So, the title says it all. Anyone know a nice download manager utility for OpenBSD? Something along the lines of downloader 4 X for linux, or maybe even something like flashget/getright from the Windows world. I get the

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-24 Thread Ted Unangst
On 3/21/07, Paul Irofti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - the fact that ftp can handle http makes me ponder what happened to the KISS principle? ftp is very simple. there are files on the internet. i want them on my computer. ftp puts them there. how much simpler can it be? :)

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-25 Thread Nick !
On 3/24/07, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/21/07, Paul Irofti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - the fact that ftp can handle http makes me ponder what happened to > the KISS principle? ftp is very simple. there are files on the internet. i want them on my computer. ftp puts them

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-25 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:33:25AM -0400, Nick ! wrote: | On 3/24/07, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >On 3/21/07, Paul Irofti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >> - the fact that ftp can handle http makes me ponder what happened to | >> the KISS principle? | > | >ftp is very simple. there

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-25 Thread besnard michel
hi what about : - file manager http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/about_rox - ftp client http://www.wxftp.seul.org/help/intro.html#what regards, mike 2007/3/25, Paul de Weerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:33:25AM -0400, Nick ! wrote: > | On 3/24/07, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-25 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Nick ! wrote: > On 3/24/07, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/21/07, Paul Irofti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - the fact that ftp can handle http makes me ponder what happened to > > > the KISS principle? > > > > ftp is very simple. there are files on th

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-28 Thread Sunnz
wget can handle multiple files last time I used. wget -c http://url1 http://:url2 ftp://url3 ... 2007/3/21, Leonardo Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Ahh, sorry, I did write FILE manager instead of DOWNLOAD manager :D I need more coffee... Yeah, wget is great, I use it a lot, but I'm looking for