[postal2mac] my download failed 3 times already...

hotblack hotblack at sietchtabr.plus.com
Sat May 22 10:30:53 EDT 2004


There are two commandline utilities you can use that should cope with 
interruptions better than Safari, curl and wget. curl comes as default 
with OS X, wget is downloadable as part of Fink, on it's own, or 
compile it yourself from source.
Simple instructions for curl.
- Open up Terminal.app
- Navigate to the folder you want to save the file to, eg cd 
~/downloads/
- Enter the following command:
curl -u postal2mac:p33p33Hz 
http://0day.icculus.org/private/postal2beta/postal2-mac-beta1.dmg -o 
postal2-mac-beta1.dmg
You can also miss out the username and password and curl will prompt 
you for them.

If you've got wget the syntax is wget --http-user=<username> 
--http-passwd=<password> <full path of download>, so you'd type
wget --http-user=postal2mac --http-passwd=p33p33Hz  
http://0day.icculus.org/private/postal2beta/postal2-mac-beta1.dmg

HTH,
ben




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