Wget use

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 09:58 -0400, David Boles wrote:
> on 10/8/2007 2:21 AM, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 11:22 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >> I decided to get the F7 live CD .iso file and use wget. I did the 
> >> first part using my web browser and I found a source for this file in CA 
> >> which is as close as possible. I had to find a source that uses FTP. As 
> >> the man pages say wget will only work with a FTP source.
> > 
> > GET(1)                            GNU Wget
> > WGET(1)
> > 
> > NAME
> >        Wget - The non-interactive network downloader.
> > 
> > SYNOPSIS
> >        wget [option]... [URL]...
> > 
> > DESCRIPTION
> >        GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files
> > from
> >        the Web.  It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as
> >        retrieval through HTTP proxies.
> > 
> > ... nuff said, Ric
> 
> 
> For the CLI challenged there are GUI frontends for wget.  ;-) Gwget
> (GNOME) and Kwget (KDE). Never tried the KDE one, not even sure if it
> available in Fedora, but the Gwget works fine.
> 
It would help all us overworked schleps if you would call the program
gwget rather than Gwget. It keeps us from thinking we have lost our
minds.
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