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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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macosx.miraworld.tv

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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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