Hello Ben, On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 18:34 -0700, [email protected] wrote: > Mark Trickett wrote: > > > When I can locate a resource, some of them do not respond well, and the > > download manager in FF has a bad "feature" of truncation and no way to > > resume or tell it that the transfer has more to go. > >
Had to copy and paste from email reader, your contribution followed two dashes at the start of a line, which Evolution took as the separator before a "SIG" and did not include in the reply. > I have had this problem on dial-up. I try to solve it by getting the > address > of the download and using wget. I found it more reliable. And if the > download > is partial, you can complete it with the -c option rather than > beginning again. > I now mostly use midori rather that firefox. > > ben I have a plugin for FF that will craft a wget command line, and I have used a "naked" wget with the URL and the -c and --no-proxy switches. I have yet to find the proxy on this PC, and have found necessary to bypass. This is how I manage to download my digital copy of Linux Journal, and grab some larger files here and there. I am trying to migrate to a fresh PC, and taking some of my data is not straightforward, I am on several learning curves and finding somewhat steep in conjunction with well past the 20's and a lot of physical work in meat space. Regards, Mark Trickett _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
