On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 05:24:32PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:21:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > With apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris, or apt-zip, I am able to > > produce a list of the URLs I need to do a dist-upgrade. However, I > > don't have the bandwidth to download all those files (which would fill > > a CDROM). > > > > So I beg someone in town, where there is lots of Windows machines, to > > download the files and burn them onto a CDROM with "nero". > > > > I wish to make a Windows shell script [.BAT?] to send him to ease the > > process. > > > > So how does one write the equivalent of > > wget URL1 URL2... > > for Windows or MS/DOS? > > > > Please don't tell me to tell him to use Knoppix, download wget, etc. > > Certainly there are some standard windows tools to do this, no? > > Probably the most pragmatic thing to do is simply make a .html page with > a hyperlink to each file. Have the guy open the file in IE and just > click three or four links at a time, till he has them all. > > That's more of the "Windows way of doing it" -- worker harder not > smarter. The visited hyperlinks will a different color so he won't be > confused. And you won't be asking him to do something he doesn't > understand.
Or use http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ You can just give him wget.exe and a batch file! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
