Re: apt-get via Windows
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:21:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> With apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris, or apt-zip, I am able to
> produce a list of the URLs I need to do a dist-upgrade. However, I
> don't have the bandwidth to download all those files (which would fill
> a CDROM).
>
> So I beg someone in town, where there is lots of Windows machines, to
> download the files and burn them onto a CDROM with "nero".
>
> I wish to make a Windows shell script [.BAT?] to send him to ease the
> process.
>
> So how does one write the equivalent of
> wget URL1 URL2...
> for Windows or MS/DOS?
>
> Please don't tell me to tell him to use Knoppix, download wget, etc.
> Certainly there are some standard windows tools to do this, no?
Probably the most pragmatic thing to do is simply make a .html page with
a hyperlink to each file. Have the guy open the file in IE and just
click three or four links at a time, till he has them all.
That's more of the "Windows way of doing it" -- worker harder not
smarter. The visited hyperlinks will a different color so he won't be
confused. And you won't be asking him to do something he doesn't
understand.
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