Scheduling downloads

[Chris Norman]

How about a combination of at and wget?

HTH,

Chris Norman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Georgina Joyce" <gena at genaj.plus.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 1:23 AM
Subject: Scheduling downloads


> Hi All
>
> My ISP requests that I schedule downloads during off peak hours and as I'm 
> looking at downloading a DVD image, I'm wondering how I can start my 
> download.
>
> Of course I could wait until midnight and start the download but I 
> wondered if there was a more automated way.  Even to stop at 08:00 and 
> resume the following midnight.  I know that I could use cron but I would 
> need to specify a time and the download location, which seems a little 
> scary.  I'd usually use lftp but maybe another client might offer a 
> solution?  Just thought, might wget do the job?  Any suggestions anyone?
>
> Gena
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