Re: getting apps en masse

2013-01-29 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:33 AM, John Newton wrote: > Sirs: Especially Dewey and Jorge.I should have stated at the outset that I > must download from public computer not using openbsd so wget would > not work. I must work with the constraints of the mirror and my windows > system. BTW this is ver

Re: getting apps en masse

2013-01-27 Thread Brian Callahan
On 1/27/2013 6:33 PM, John Newton wrote: Sirs: Especially Dewey and Jorge.I should have stated at the outset that I must download from public computer not using openbsd so wget would not work. I must work with the constraints of the mirror and my windows system. BTW this is version 5.1 i am using

Re: getting apps en masse

2013-01-26 Thread Dewey Hylton
wget does the trick nicely for me ... VER=5.2 ARCH=i386 BASE=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/$VER ARGS="--passive-ftp -r -N -nH" wget $ARGS -l inf $BASE/packages/$ARCH/ >From: John Newton yahoo.com> >Subject: getting apps en masse >Date: 2013-01-25 01:30:19 GMT (2 days,

Re: getting apps en masse

2013-01-26 Thread Jorge Armendariz
On 01/24/2013 06:30 PM, John Newton wrote: > Sirs: Is there a way to download whole multipage chunks of the Apps from any > of the mirrors? I need to study them at my leisure offline and the one-by-one > method is tedious. Thanks from john > > > _

Re: getting apps en masse

2013-01-24 Thread Andres Perera
there are ways, including pkg_add it seems that's not good enough, and i'm guessing it's because downloading->installing isn't parallelized... you can use other clients; ftp, http, rsync, afs (lol) to download packages On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:00 PM, John Newton wrote: > Sirs: Is there a way t