Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3C3D4952.1060900@wgn.net> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 23:57:06 -0800 From: "$Bill Luebkert" Organization: DBE Collectibles User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en,en-GB,en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: soren_andersen@fastmail.fm CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Downloading problems - either won't D/L at all or truncates over 1MB References: <3C3BAF70.10775.2E4A84@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit soren_andersen@fastmail.fm wrote: > On 9 Jan 2002 at 2:50, $Bill Luebkert wrote: > > Hey, $Bill, welcome! (back). Thanks, finally got a new computer up and running (bad MB - too lazy to get it fixed) - much bigger disk now. >>1) After going to all of the trouble of picking the files you want >>and picking a D/L site, it would be nice if the picks were saved so >>when it fails you don't have to go through all that picking again. >> > > A-men. This is the biggest frustration I've had w/ setup, also. You would think it would be easy to save the selections to a disk file (as are the servers etc) and reload on request. >>I managed to make a mirror script to D/L newer files which seems to be >>working (haven't tried it since I fixed the large file problem by >>finding a good site. It's Perl based using Net::FTP module and should >>grab newer files easily and D/L them. > > Of course you did :-). Go Perl! I hardly ever code anything BUT Perl these days - mostly web stuff. :) >>PS: I'm currently not subscribed (I already have super heavy email >>traffic helping Perl users), so please CC me with any replies. >> > > Will do, although I am not a fixer of anything around here ;-). Yet. > But I will keep an eye out for any replies that might happen to not be CC'd, and > forward them to you. Much grass. Good to hear your voice again (so to speak). :) -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert ICQ=14439852 (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:dbe@todbe.com / ) /--< o // // http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (Free site for Perl) -/-' /___/_<_