Hello to everyone

Gregory Nowak romualt at megsinet.net
Thu Aug 23 22:35:03 EDT 2001


I used netzip download demon in my windows days, and it sucked.
Greg



> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Peter M.  Konka" <pmk5485 at concentric.net
>To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 20:25:36 -0400
>Subject: Re: Hello to everyone

>There are other programns that anyone can download for free.

>What these programs do is if your pdial up connection has been
>disconnected, it will resume the download after the next ttime you reconnect.

>I'm not exactly sure if these programs are available for linux.  But for
>windows they are,

>Two programs that I know of, and that work very well at pausing and
>resuming file downloads are :

>Get Right

>and

>Download Accellerator

>--- Peter Konka

>At 06:09 PM 8/23/01 -0400, you wrote:
>>Yeah I know, I was working out the math to get the cat sitter to startup a
>>new download between her visits ha!
>>Wow!  I had figured on about 2 and a half days per CD so hey now! 35 hours
>>per image! ain't all bad!  The only down side to this is if you loose the
>>modem connection and have to start all overagain.  I sure did like the
>>resume feature in zmodem back in the dos days.

>>I'm happy to say that a kind person has been gracious enough to burn some
>>CDs.  Once I have these, in the future, will be glad to pass on the favor
>>to others but don't everybody line-up just yet!

>>Amanda



>>On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Tommy Moore wrote:

>>> Actually I've downloaded plenty of cd images over my modem.  Its not pretty
>>> but if you let it go you can get one in about 35 hours or so.
>>> If you don't watn ot take that way downloading while you sleep is antoehr
>>> good option or download while your at work or a bit of both.
>>> Some people say I'm crazy for doing this but oh well.




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