Hi folks, I know there are issue 1

[KenCunningham]

Hi folks,

I know there are issues with downloading sunfreeware.com files to Windows machines, and thence (via binary ftp) to a Solaris server, but as we don't have any other option I was wondering whether anyone has discovered a reliable get-around of the problems which seem to bedevil this process. Any advice gratefully received. Cheers.

 

[jad]

get an ftp client for your machine and ftp the files from the links instead of going via a browser ... ?

if you have a good ftp client you might be able to ftp straight to the solaris machine by doing a remote to remote file transfer ...

 

[nwardez]

Hi,

Sometimes

http://www.freeware4sun.com

works better

 

[dawookie]

wget or the ncftp client running on cygwin have worked well for me. Cygwin is a library and tools package for Windows 9x/NT/2k/XP that allows building Un*x source on a windows box.

You can get more info at

http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin

Cheers

man(1) is your friend

 

[KenCunningham]

Thanks, guys, I'll try the freeware4sun site and get back to you. Cheers.

 

[KenCunningham]

Nwardez, many thanks freeware4sun worked brilliantly. Thanks to others fro their suggestions too. Cheers.