Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3996 mails)

[Jim Sabatke <jsabatke@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike McMullin wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 07:11, Jim Sabatke wrote:
>  
>
> > How do I access a link with wget written in the following form?
> >
> > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/abiword-2.0.11.tar.gz?use_mirror=unc
> >
> > I spent hours trying things, reading man pages and looking 
> > for online help.
> >
> > I don´t know enough HTML to understand what the ending on 
> > that URL means.
> >    
>
> wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/abiword-2.0.11.tar.gz
>
>  Will work for you.  I have just tried this in a shell, and the file
> transfered.
>
>  Mike
>
>
>  

Actually, that was one of the first things I tried.  It downloads a file 
called abiword-2.0.11.tar.gz, but it is way too small (supposed to be 
almost 25MB) and it isn't a tar.gz file.  It looked like an HTML file, 
but lynx couldn't decode it.

Thanks for trying!