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Re: Is there a standard syntax?
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Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:51:14 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dan Boger wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 01:39:29PM +0000, Dave Schuler wrote:
> > Thanks for your input, though!  I might be able to track down a copy of the old
> > "file.bat" program and just work from that.
> 
> Does that mean that XP provides an internal way to download files?  How
> does that work?  Can you show us that one line? :)

I wish I could remember or find it, but it was something dirt-simple like this:

copy //www.doofus.com/dolt/knucklehead/fool.txt c:\network\fool.txt

but I can't recall the formatting, and that's the whole problem.

Dave!



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(...) That works if the site is on your windows network, so you can access it as \\hostname\path\to\file... But if it's not available, I don't think it's doable... Say, if you try to copy (URL) to your local drive, I don't think it'll work. But I'd (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) 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)

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