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Downloading in DOS?

03-05-2003 10:33AM

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Pigman II

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Is there any way/command in MS-DOS to download a file if you have the given URL eg 'http//www.etc.com/file.zip'?

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#2 03-05-2003 12:31PM

dahamsta

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Wget is an excellent downloader, with binaries available for Windows.

adam

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#3 03-05-2003 04:08PM

Pigman II

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Is there no DOS command that will do it in itself? eg 'get http//www.etc.com/file.zip' (or whatever).

I'm looking for a way of doing this that doesn't involve installing software.

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#4 03-05-2003 10:13PM

Captain Trips

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No there isn't, on any OS AFAIK. You just get the application/program executable and run it; Just like say, ftp from a CLI on any *nix. You can't go very far without installing apps - even if installing is just a single executable.

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#5 04-05-2003 04:01PM

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If you can do any programming, you could write something simple in C/C++/Java that you can call from the command line to d/l files for you....... Wouldn't be more than 30 lines long.

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