Beaver

Hi peeps

I just posted a question over at AWI but it was waaaaaay too hard for them and since all the clever peeps are over here I thought I had best hop on over and ask the EXPERTS
Ok. that enough ass licking for a first post here's the problem I need solving

I want to download a data file from a web address onto my hard drive
using standard tools that come with w98 and it must be an automated
process that can preferably be executed from a *.bat file

If this was the web address http://www.anywebaddress.com/mydata.dat
and I want to download mydata.dat to c:\anydir

Can anybody tell me a command line that would grab the file off the net and dump it on my drive.

Thanks ...

------------------

• There are three types of people in this world
• those who can count and those who can't.

Rivux

Unless you have ftp access to the site, then you cannot download a file from the net from the command line using standard Win9x programs.

If you DO have ftp access, then everything is fine and easy, you can write something like in a batch file.

ftp ftp.mysite.com
myusername
mypassword
cd path
get filename C:\dir
exit

Beaver

Unfortunately I cant use FTP but I have just been told on AWI about a command line program called wget.exe that uses the syntax... wget.exe http://webadress.com/file.dat , Just my bloody luck the download page is closed for updating.

Thanks for the help I'm going hunting for a similar program.

------------------

• There are three types of people in this world
• those who can count and those who can't.