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Posted by Peter N. Schweitzer on October 26, 2006, 9:40 am
Please log in for more thread options jimirwin wrote:
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>> Did I ask these questions in the wrong way? Has this become a
>> low-traffic group where people don't post much? Just curious.
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> Yes, this is a low-traffic group now. The DLG files are available through
> HTTP at http://eros.usgs.gov/geodata/dlg_large/states.html
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> I don't know where they might be available through FTP. That host doesn't
> seem to accept FTP connections.
Low-traffic group--you say that like it's a bad thing ;-)
Just to fill in a little detail, the security managers at DoI have
banned the use of FTP servers.
I would agree that it isn't convenient to use typical web browsers
to gather many similar files from an http server. However I would
encourage you to consider scripting the download by saving the
links you'll want in a file and then downloading them by running
a batch file or script of some kind. It's just my opinion but I
think this isn't overly complicated once you figure out which tools
you can use to get a single file from a http server. Using cygwin
for example you can run wget to download a URL that you specify on
the command line. So your batch file could be as simple as a large
list of wget commands, each with a slightly different URL as its
argument. Come to think of it, I recall that wget can be told to
folllow links on a site, downloading everything linked from a page.
Peter
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Peter N. Schweitzer (MS 954, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA 20192)
(703) 648-6533 FAX: (703) 648-6252 email: pschweitzer@usgs.gov
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