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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!nh.acorn.co.uk!uknet!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!myrddin.demon.co.uk!dom From: dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk (Dominic Mitchell) Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages Date: 19 Jun 1996 21:48:22 GMT Organization: Radio Gnome Invisible Lines: 27 Message-ID: <slrn4sgtd6.ds.dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> References: <31c2e7bd.14691630@news.demon.co.uk> <834878464snz@pair.com> <834921960snz@michaels.demon.co.uk> <835206024.5881.2@diltd.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-NNTP-Posting-Host: myrddin.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.1 UNIX) On Wed, 19 Jun 1996 17:40:24 GMT, Ric Harwood <ric@diltd.demon.co.uk> wrote: > In demon.ip.support, Michael Salem <michaels@michaels.demon.co.uk>, > Michael Salem wrote: > > >Regarding slow downloading from ftp and web sites: > >Batch ftp gets round slow ftp file transfers. > >When is batch www downloading due to be implemented? > > Is it 'due to be implemented'? And/or does anyone know where I could > find a program, [preferably source], that could run this? > We would like to try batch http on area51, which is currently > running freebsd. What exactly do you mean by batch http? Do you mean "download the contents of this site, so that I can look through it on my machine, later"? If so, then there was a package recently announced (past month) on comp.os.linux.announce which used the lynx browser to do just such a thing. If you keep poking me about it (after this weekend), I'll install it on area51 for you, Ric. -Dom