petergunn

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Joined: Nov. 2004 |
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Posted: Nov. 19 2004,19:47 |
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After getting increasingly frustrated with stalled downloads from ibilio I hacked /usr/bin/mydslgui.pl so that it would show the download progress.
I replaced the grab subroutine with the following...
sub grab { `cd $to_store; sudo xterm -e sudo wget --timeout=3 http://www.ibiblio.org/pub...._this`; `mydsl-load $to_store$grab_this`; }
Works great. It uses http rather than ftp and retries after 3secs if it stalls, and it shows the progress in an xterm.
Just thought I'd share :-)
BTW love DSL. My friend gave me an old lappy that was 'unuseable'. Im not showing him it running DSL or he'll want it back! 
ttfn
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