Does anyone know how to download a file from the INTERNET to you pc with batch under winxp? E.G. If you have a tekstfile and you have the link, let the textfile appear on the desktop. As far as I know there is no standard function for that in the command line, but googling for it didn't help me either. Perhaps someone of you guys can help me?There is a well known command line program called wget.
Quote from: Dias de verano on MAY 02, 2008, 09:50:40 AM

There is a well known command line program called wget.

To build Wget, your system must support a Unix-like command-line
development environment, including the text-processing utilities (sh,
grep, awk, sed, etc.) and a functional C compiler. On some GNU/Linux
systems, this means that you will need to install packages such as
`gcc', `glibc-devel' (or `libc6-dev') and `make'. Most systems come
with these packages preinstalled, but it doesn't hurt to check. If

Blackberry, there is a tradition among some Linux users to compile software from source code. You have quoted from the compile instructions for wget. Wget is a C program that can be compiled for various platforms, such as Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, OpenVMS (!!!) and 32 bit Windows. Unix-like development tools are necessary to compile it from source code, but why do that? Most people get their win32 software of all kinds ready compiled. Wget compiled for Win32 is extremely available.

e.g. here

http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/