Re: SourceForge Problem

[Andy Buckle]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Mike G <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks Andy,
> However, when I try Firefox 3.6, Beta 3, the advertisements just keep
> cycling, but no download screen comes up even the main window says the
> download should start shortly. Same result when I try the direct or the
> mirror link.
> Any other ideas?
> Mike G.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Buckle [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 2:38 PM
> To: Mike G
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: SourceForge Problem
>
> That link works for me now (win xp using firefox). When I have
> annoying issues like that, I generally find that the quickest solution
> is to try a different browser: firefox, google chrome, internet
> explorer, opera, konqueror.
>
> This is lazy, rather than actually figuring out the cause of the problem...
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Mike G <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Greetings'
>>
>> I am having problems downloading Octave for Windows 7,
>>
>> When I go to
>>
>> http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForWindows , the page opens o.k.,
> then
>> I click in the download link. That page opens, but the download never
>> starts. When I select the direct or mirror links, those open, but the
>> download never starts from there either.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mike G.
>>
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Well, it also works for me in evil explorer (though I did have to
click on "direct link") maybe because I was being impatient.

I really can't see why can't get a browser to do this.

If you wish to persue Sergei's suggestion. You can get wget for
windows here http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

Even though that version is rather old. It worked for me when I did this

wget 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/octave/Octave_Windows%20-%20MinGWOctave%203.2.4%20for%20Windows%20MinGW32%20Installer
/Octave-3.2.4_i686-pc-mingw32_gcc-4.4.0_setup.exe?use_mirror=kent

(make sure there are no carriage returns in that single argument to wget).

Andy