Re: LYNX-DEV Since Lynx won't, what will?

[Jason F. McBrayer]

>>>>> "JD" == Jim Dennis <address@hidden> writes:

>> On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Scott McGee (Personal) wrote:
>>> Can someone fill in the blanks in the above? I need something that
>>> will fetch such files via http to my own system.

JD>     I think the software that was recommended as an alternative to
JD>     my suggestion was wmir or webmirror and/or wget or geturl
JD>     (which are all Perl libraries, scripts or modules as far as I
JD>     know).

GNU wget is written in C, not Perl.  It's extremely flexible and can
be configured to do anything from a quick single-file grab to periodic
mirroring of changed files.  You can find it at the usual GNU sites, I
think.

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