Cheryl, It seems to me that trying to download multiple files is more hassle than just downloading the volumes individually. I just use lynx, go to books for adults and press d on the volumes of the books I want. with a fast connection it takes only a few seconds. Well, to each her own. This is mine. John On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I'm not sure whether lftp can be used for this. I'm probably not doing a > very good job of explaining this, but I think the supposed directory for > the books really isn't the actual directory and direct access to anything > but specific urls might not be possible. Using lftp with the -u option to > give my username and password, I can go to www.loc.gov/nls/braille, but no > .brf books appear in the directory list or if you try mget. But I can > directly download with wget or edbrowse for example, > www.loc.gov/nls/braille/12269v01.brf. I can see why they want to protect > the files and it's not my desire to crash security, but it still would be > nice not to have to download each file individually. > Lftp would be easier to use than the suggested script if it would work, I > think, but I'm not sure it will. > As for the script to pipe to wget, I'm getting errors with that, but those > may be my own mistakes in setting it up; will post and ask about it if i > don't figure it out. The filenames are five-digit numbers plus v01 v02 v03 > etc., depending on how many volumes, ending in .brf. > > I actually did write NLS once and ask them about using an ftp setup; they > said they had considered it but had security concerns. > > Anyway, it's not like what I'm doing doesn't work, but I'm always looking > for better and less time-consuming ways to do things. > > -- John J. Boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list