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muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 5648 Location: hobart

http://dfast.sourceforge.net/

Dingo · Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 923

great tool, mirrored also on dokupuppy:
- http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy/programs:download_manager

together with all other download manager available for puppy

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 5648 Location: hobart

Hi Dingo,

I didn't realise that the original place, where I lodged wxGTK-2.8.7-i486.pet, required a login, so I've uploaded it to rapidshare.com, and changed the download link above. So you might want to change your link, for wxGTK-2.8.7-i486.pet, to reflect this.

Also, on your http://puppylover.netsons.org site, I notice you've a link for aria2 under Aria. I just thought I'd clarify that Aria is a gui downloader, available here:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=6733&sid=dcc1f7e0e50c07a1eab39339a314601a

Aria, like curl, dx4 & wxdfast, can be integrated with Flashgot & firefox/seamonkey browsers.

Whereas Aria2 is a commandline downloader. (Although it has several GUI frontends available as well) .AFAIK Aria2 & wxdfast are the only two linux downloaders with metalink support.

Also, urlgfe is up to v1.0.2, available here:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=7644

Hope this clarifies somewhat, more than it confuses, cheers.

Dingo · Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 923

Thanks for your right remarks. All done!
- http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy/doku.php/programs:download_manager

twanj · Joined: 15 Sep 2006 Posts: 11

thebeaky · Joined: 09 May 2009 Posts: 49

I tried this wxdfast, but what I found as I tried to download a new distro (109 M) that it seemed to dowload this whole file into ram before saving it where I had told it to put it.
This meant the puppyspace bar was full. Eventually the download finished and it saved it where it was supposed to go. but only after clogging my memory which it needn't have done if it had saved it as a ".part" file. where I wanted it (in a seperate partition).

is there a workaround for this?
or do any of the others allow for restarting, and save it as they download?

system details

puppy 4.2
dell inspiron 2600 laptop.
live cd with (at the time 256m pupsave, now increased) on a flash drive.

thebeaky · Joined: 09 May 2009 Posts: 49

Hey so after posting the previous,

I decided to try to check a few other managers.

aria2c seems to be doing what I was asking for.

no cloggage from, and from what I can tell it seems to have a second file to help it resume later in the same place, which seems handy.

took me a few seconds to work out what all of the info in the window was, but makes good sense now.

I think I will stick with aria for now. if I have problems will probably report them somewhere.

thebeaky · Joined: 09 May 2009 Posts: 49

so arias pet shop in adventure quest came up a number of times when I was trying to find the pet file.
hehe

abushcrafter · Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts: 304

thanks

abushcrafter · Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts: 304

Grrr it keeps crashing! Uninstalled Mad