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Re: how to download in the background?



Hi,

In libwww-perl there is a command GET <URL> that makes the trick.
If you have a squid proxy, you can read it next time directly from 
cache. Otherwise, you can put it to a file.

	Esa

On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote:

> Is it possible to download something, say http://xxx.xxx.xxx/abc.zip
> in the background?  For example, I can run ncftp, get a file, press
> CTRL-Z, type bg, then I can logout and ncftp still downloading the
> file for me.  Is there an equivalent command for downloading from http?
> 
> lawrence,
> 
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