Re: apt-get via Windows
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 05:24:32PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
> 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.
Or use http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
You can just give him wget.exe and a batch file!
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