On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:50:10 +0100, "ian field"
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"baron" wrote in message
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"Archimedes' Lever" wrote in message
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On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 21:00:11 +0100, "ian field"
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AIUI Winwget is simply a GUI front end for Wget, all I've been able
to get it to download is "index.html".

What would be a typical example command line for Wget ?


http://planet.admon.org/howto/common...sage-examples/


Thanks - but I still can't get the 'kin thing to work!

It might pay to have a look at "Robots.txt" ! The site may have limited
what you can leech. Just getting the index is a symptom of that.

If that's the case FDM has beaten it, but I had to leave it running
overnight it was so slow.



Bit torrents for large files or archives.

I was getting 649 kB/s yesterday on one stream while DLing some Dvorak
from Usenet binary groups, and feeding back about 70kB/s. Yes, that is a
big B.