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Date:	Sun, 28 Mar 2004 19:30:16 PST8PDT,4,1,0,3600,10,-1,0,7200,3600
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: awget vs wget

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Peter Skye wrote:
> Ray Davison wrote:
>
>>Is what you have described below your version of video
>>games, I thought you had useful things to do? If I want
>>to DL a file--including the one you used as an example--I
>>just drag the link to the DT and go on to something else.
>>I don't haul out a CMD to edit and run. You spend longer
>>clipping the link than my whole operation.
>
> I like to have a record of what I did to get something,

OK, I can make a record of what I did, but it is always going to say the
something "dragged the link to the DT".

> where I got it from, and when I did so.

AWGET keeps logs.

> You're a fighter pilot; I'm more of a B-52 pounder.

No, you learned how to write fancy code so now you can do things the
hard way.

Remember, laziness is the mother of invention.

By now you know that AWGET is a front end for WGET, sorry I didn't make
that clear sooner.

Ray

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