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Author Topic: Copy file from web to Hardrive  (Read 3059 times)

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HotShot

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Copy file from web to Hardrive
« on: November 24, 2004, 04:40:02 AM »
OK I know a bit, but not all!

I am trying to copy a file from http to my hard drive.

i.e.
copy:
http://www.computerhope.com/aboutus.htm
to:
C:\aboutus.htm

I don't really want to use FTP (I would need to embed passwords & I don't want to do that!) but I will if I have to...

Thanks in advance

2k dummy

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Re: Copy file from web to Hardrive
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2004, 09:19:20 AM »
Are you trying to save a file or a web page?

HotShot

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Re: Copy file from web to Hardrive
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2004, 04:30:24 AM »

It's just a file I want to download.

Let's say I want to download/copy the following file from the Internet to my machine:

"http://wwww.foobar.com/list.txt"

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Any help appreciated
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Delboy

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Re: Copy file from web to Hardrive
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2004, 11:48:18 AM »
Hi, Linux has the command 'get' which will do just this but Windows does not have this feature. But there are ports :) Search Google:
site:sourceforge.net wget
will give some free downloads from sourceforge.net

HTH,
Derek.

MalikTous

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Re: Copy file from web to Hardrive
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2004, 12:10:25 PM »
If the file is listed on a website, you can right click it and (in Opera) 'save target as' and browse the save-in dialogue to the appropriate directory. In other browsers the option may be named differently but the idea is the same.