[postal2mac] Disk Image Frustration

hotblack hotblack at sietchtabr.plus.com
Sat May 22 22:59:54 EDT 2004


I downloaded it fine with curl, a command line tool included with OS X, 
here's my previous e-mail's:

> 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

> For those of you that are CLI-phobic ;)
>
> GUI frontend for curl
> http://www.sevensquareinches.com/software/icurl0.9.0.sit
>
> Wget GUI frontend (needs the below package)
> http://www.cosmos.ne.jp/%7Ekaz6120/download/SimpleWget.0.81.tar.gz
> Wget package
> http://homepage.mac.com/kaz6120/osx/wget-1.8.2-jaguar.tar.gz

> Curl should continue if the transfer is interrupted, it is also 
> capable of resuming a partial transfer. To get curl to automagically 
> try to resume, use the '-C -' option
> curl -C - -u username:password <remote file> <partial local file>

Once download burn the image to a cd to install and play. Some others 
have said that mounting it with Toast works too.

Cheers,
ben




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