The complete database in 1 file?

[Michele Dondi]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Ralf Stephan wrote:

>> I think the main difficulty is downloading the 96 files.  Can you make your browser or FTP loop on file names?
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> Use wget (needs cygwin under windoze), or any command line util
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Not necessarily. I know of at least one nice native win* build available 
from UNXUTILS/UNXUPDATES.

However, yes, I'd just do

perl -le 'print "http://pathto/file$_" for 1..96' | wget -i -

> Ah, your operating system no longer has a shell (=command line interface)?
> Complain with the company.

I'm not really an expert, but AFAICT no Windows version comes devoid of a 
shell yet. Nay, rumors are that cmd.exe is a much better shell than 
command.com; but obviously much worse than any *sh!


Michele
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