I tried to post this to the list some time ago. I'm not sure what happened:

Hello Everyone,

I really didn't feel like bothering with Cygwin in order to download all
the updates/packages. The following script seems to be totally
cross-platform, though I haven't rebooted to test it out in linux yet.
Oh and it also will continue unfinished downloads [instead of checking
if they exist]

I thought I'd throw it out on the list. It might need a little cleaning
up though, as I am definitely a perl novice.

You should download the win32 version of wget: this is where I got mine:
http://allserv.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/

Take it easy,
Christian


# prepare.pl -- a perl version of the prepare script
# lets you run prepare without cygwin (tested on ActivePerl)
# It also requires a version of wget for win32
# largely copied from : http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/perl/find.html

use warnings;
use strict;

use Cwd;
use File::Find;
use File::Path;

# Set the correct language
my $lang = "ENU";
if ( $ARGV[0] ) {
    $lang = $ARGV[0];
}

# Set the current directory
my $current = cwd;

# look in the scripts directory
find(\&d, cwd."\/scripts");

sub d {

    my $file = $File::Find::name;

    $file =~ s,/,\\,g;

    return unless -f $file;
    return unless $file =~ m/(\.bat|\.aut)/i;

    open F, $file or print "Couldn't open $file\n" && return;

    while (<F>) {
       if ( my $line = m/^\:\:\sURL\|($lang|ALL)\|(\S+)\|(\S+)\s/) {

          my $url = $2;

          # split dir and filename (I chose not to do this in the above
regexp)
          my($directory, $filename) = $3 =~ m/(.*\/)(.*)$/;

          # Make the path if it doesn't exist
          mkpath("$current\/$directory");

          system("wget -c -O $current\/$directory$filename $url");
        }
    }
    close F;
}



Klaus Vink Slott wrote:

> At 14 December 2004 14:28 Tew, Edward wrote:
>
>>there are two cygwin scripts in install\tools called Prepare and Check
>>that do the hardwork for you.
>
> Yes reidg@... might be interested in the Step by step installation guide at  
> http://unattended.sourceforge.net/step-by-step.html
>
>
>>It is a bit of a pain having to install Cygwin just for this
>
> If you running Linux on your server (samba), both scripts runs perfectly from
> the server prompt.
>
> We are using Solaris at our site, but under Solaris I could not make the
> scripts work. For a quick and dirty solution I keep a copy on my Linux
> working machine and prepare the download directory here - and mirror it to
> our server.
>


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