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================== snarf version 2.0 October 1, 1998

Description

 Snarf is a utility I wrote to retrieve documents via the http and

ftp protocols. It supports http redirect, http and ftp resume, http and ftp authentication, and other neat things.

Usage

 To use snarf to download a file from an url, type 

"snarf ". This will transfer the file from the remote location to your computer. You can have as many URLs on the command line as you want: "snarf " will download three files. By default, it saves the file with the same name it had on the remote system; if you want to change this, you can do "snarf " and it will save your URL to the filename you provide.

 To use the HTTP proxy feature, set the SNARF_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY,

or FTP_PROXY environment variables to the address of your proxy, such as "proxy.mycompany.de:1080".

 If you run snarf without any arguments, it prints some usage

information.

Notes

 I wrote this in three days four years ago and it was majorly

klugy, but it worked, and pretty niftily. I rewrote it from scratch over the past few days and I'm pleased to say that it's much nicer and cleaner inside, and this cleanliness has made it easy to add some features I always wanted to add to the old version.

Version 2.0.3:

 This version has a configure option of

"--with-guess-winsize". This feature uses ioctl to determine what your operating system things the width of your terminal is. It's not enabled by default, because I don't know how well it works on all platforms. It's safe to enable on Linux and Solaris. If you manage to get it to work somewhere else, let me know.

Email: xach@xach.com

Snail mail: Zachary Beane, 17 Talmadge Rd., Waite, ME 04492, USA