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  Re: Is there a standard syntax?
 
(...) I wish I could remember or find it, but it was something dirt-simple like this: copy //www.doofus.com/dol...d/fool.txt c:\network\fool.txt but I can't recall the formatting, and that's the whole problem. Dave! (21 years ago, 30-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Is there a standard syntax?
 
(...) Does that mean that XP provides an internal way to download files? How does that work? Can you show us that one line? :) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Is there a standard syntax?
 
(...) After I left work last night I realized that my formulation of the question was really feeble, so here's some more info, if it helps. I guess it's not *really* DOS but is intead a DOS shell running on Windows XP. In my former department I used (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Is there a standard syntax?
 
(...) Dave, I'm pretty sure you can't do it without an external program. If you have FTP access to the file, you can use the command-line ftp program included with most msdos versions, otherwise you will need a non-dos program, I would recommend GNU (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Is there a standard syntax?
 
Hi All: I know next to zilch about programming, even in DOS, so this question is asked in ignorance and good faith. If I'm writing a .bat program to copy a file from a known, static location on the web, is there a standard format by which the (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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