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Re: Linux downloads too slow



On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Miki Shapiro wrote:

> Try typing getright.exe /? from commandline. If there is something it
> cannot do, I don't think I've stumbled accross it yet.
>
> Yes, it's adware, and if you don't mind paying for a very good program the
> price of a pizza, it's worth every cent.
>
> Volunteers to port getright to gtk or kde? :-)))
>

How can I do that if it's source code is not available? I'm also aware of
Go!-Zilla, but it's latest version looks awful and crashes a lot.

I think curl will do for me.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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> On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:36:46PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Eddie Harari wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I would check DNS lookup.
> > > > >
> > > > > if this is not a DNS problem than why not use tcpdump to dump all packets
> > > > > and reply times ???
> > > > > see if the request goes out and then understand what is going on ?
> > > >
> > > > No need to go as far as tcpdump. wget clearly writes when it has
> > > > established a connection and when it is recieving data.
> > > >
> > > > (And as for command-line grabing from windows: at least wget is availble,
> > > > as a part of cygwin ;-) )
> > >
> > > curl is available in a standalone executable for Win32. Just grab it
> > > from http://curl.haxx.se/ .
> > >
> >
> > Very cool, I was looking for something like wget for Win32, and I'm glad
> > you pointed it to me.
> >
> > Does it support resuming interrupted connections? (at least on HTTP - on
> > FTP I have ncftpget)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > 	Shlomi Fish
> >
> > > --
> > > Best regards,
> > > Ilya Konstantinov
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Shlomi Fish        shlomif@t2.technion.ac.il
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