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Authored by: zeb on Sep 22, '03 12:17:13PM
I got curious after reading this hint and tried wget -r http://tartarus.uwa.edu.au/~trs80/Terascale/ to see the pictures for myself, but I get wget: Command not found. What am I missing?

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SimpleView - A simple and easy to use slideshow viewer
Authored by: zed on Sep 22, '03 12:19:35PM
Me too...however I did have a linux box which did have wget installed and I used that.. I also note that the URL link is broken. Cheers, ---Zed

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SimpleView - A simple and easy to use slideshow viewer
Authored by: pete on Sep 22, '03 05:36:53PM
I wish the URL was broken when I blindly pasted this in Terminal! On a slow dial-up, I did not realize this was going to be a rather large and painful download. There doesn't seem to be a switch to turn off whatever wget is getting! I am now stuck with this downloading incessantly. Do I have to delete wget to stop this? Sheesh.

Oh to have high speed!

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SimpleView - A simple and easy to use slideshow viewer
Authored by: diamondsw on Sep 22, '03 06:15:55PM

Control-C is cancel in the UNIX world. Also, Apple mapped "esc" to Control-C.



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SimpleView - A simple and easy to use slideshow viewer
Authored by: pete on Sep 23, '03 09:14:27AM

The problem I found with wget is that once the command was executed, it carried forth on its own, downloading the site without interference in the background. Ctrl-C was attempted to no avail. Re-booting seemed to stop this, but it started up after a few minutes of going back online. Not having a utility to shut down the port it was using, I shut down again. That stopped it - finally.

I did go through a number of pictures that were on the site. Picture after picture of people sitting at a board room table. I just ended up trashing the 20 or so megs of stuff I had downed.



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SimpleView - A simple and easy to use slideshow viewer
Authored by: henry on Sep 22, '03 12:52:00PM
You're missing wget. You could install it through a package manager like fink, or you could use curl instead. I'm not sure what the equivilent curl command would look like - perhaps someone else can interject at this point?

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Deep Vacuum
Authored by: Anonymous on Sep 22, '03 02:03:46PM

There's also a great little freeware app from HexCat called Deep Vacuum. It's basically an OS X GUI wrapper around wget. You can download it from http://www.hexcat.com/deepvacuum/index.htm.



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Deep Vacuum
Authored by: PancakeMan on Sep 22, '03 10:10:08PM
SimpleView - A simple and easy to use slideshow viewer
Authored by: vonleigh on Sep 22, '03 05:26:28PM

Mac OS X doesn't come with wget, however it has curl. Right now the images are offline so I can't check the exact names. If the pictures are numbered, say: picture1.jpg, picture2.jpg, etc. to say picture30.jpg You can use:

curl -O "http://server.com/picture[1-30].jpg"

And it will download all the pictures sequentially.

Read the man page for curl, it has many many options.

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