From: "Chris Norman" <cnorman@rnibncw.ac.uk>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Scheduling downloads
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:28:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000a01c665f7$8c6589f0$1d02a8c0@sparky> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060422002341.GA2929@genaj.plus.com>
How about a combination of at and wget?
HTH,
Chris Norman
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Georgina Joyce" <gena@genaj.plus.com>
To: <speakup@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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