On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Christopher Dawkins wrote:
So, I want to use http to save www.someplace.com/getme.txt to /root/getme.txt on our local machine. You probably have a "fetch" command on your system, in which case the syntax might be something like fetch -o /root/getme.txt http://www.someplace.com/getme.txt
In the absence of a "fetch" command you could also try wget:
wget http://www.someplace.com/getme.txt
Specify a proxy using the environment variable http_proxy:
http_proxy=http://my.proxy.server:3128 wget http://www.someplace.com/getme.txt
or
export http_proxy=http://my.proxy.server:3128 wget http://www.someplace.com/getme.txt
Depending on distribution the environment variable may already be set. With SuSE its one of things which can be set through /etc/rc.config It could also be set in /etc/profile -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763