Strange PDF problems.

[squareyes]

J.Markoll wrote:

> squareyes a écrit :
>
>> Hi all,
>> I have just downloaded a pdf file , 34,042Kb , am on dial up, so very 
>> slow.
>> First time stopped at 9meg, re-tried and the download manager tells 
>> me it's downloading at 650kbs, not possible with dialup, but the file 
>> showed it was coming down at that speed in the download manager.
>
> Hi Squareyes!
> I advise you to use wget in console to download your documents as well 
> as we use it for download applications. wget is powerful and will not 
> lieve you with a rotten file. The good way is incase the connexion 
> fails, or if you want to quit it momently with the 'Ctrl+c' command, 
> you can start the download again with a -c option that will do wget 
> start again at the point it left the datas, so you don't get any lost 
> in the meanwhile. Not sur I'm clear. Example:
>
> $wget http://www.urlofmypdf.pdf
>
> so it downloads.
>
> I neen the bandwith for other task, I use the keybindings Ctrl+c the 
> prompt comes back. When I need restart,
>
> $wget -c http://www.urlofmypdf.pdf
>
> will continue download on the same file, at the precise point it did 
> interrupt. So is the power of a Shell.
>
> How to get the document's URL ? with a right click on the link, 'copy 
> the adress of the link' then drop it in the console with the past 
> fonction of the mouse. Don't forget to check the spaces in the line, 
> and hit 'Enter!' joyfully  :)
> Greetings, Joyce Markoll.
>
>
Hi, Joyce,
thanks for that, am going to the city Monday and have someone with 
broadband downloading and writing to CD for me.
File is 34 meg, so takes toooo long on dialup.
Will check out wget on a smaller file. I was interested in how the 
download manager in Firefox could show such outrageous
transfer rate speeds  650kbs :-)
Thanks again,
Take Care
Winton