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Re: how to download and save files from the internet?



High,

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Gary Turner wrote:

> BrowseX is such a quick little browser on Win98 I want to try it on my
> Linux box.  After a 2M download to a page(!) (now that's a big
> page--almost as big as those tricked up flashed/framed sites :-)),
>
> Mozilla help didn't, and I have no idea how to download and save to
> file.  On Win, it was OK to be a big dummy :(  This is http url.  See
> http://browsex.com.  Will someone help me with the proper incantation.
> Or point me to the documentation.  I have Mozilla and Lynx on my box.
> Telnet get <this file> <stash it there> would be nice, but I don't think
> it applies here. :)
>
Use wget. First you search for the location of the file:
wget http://browsex.com/download/v1.5/tml2.0.tar.gz


Greetz,
Sebastiaan




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