Help needed downloading a file to a folder

Eric Chatonet eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com
Sat Dec 3 02:48:43 EST 2005


Hi Rodney,

You might be interested in "How to download data from the internet",  
one of my tutorial stack you can access through Tutorials Picker.
Tutorials Picker is a plugin available (as all other tutorials) on  
http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/?r=revolution_didacticiels&l=en

Le 3 déc. 05 à 07:31, Rodney Somerstein a écrit :

> It seems to work OK now. Though as you state, I don't want that  
> long pause while the file downloads. Of course, the next obvious  
> question is how do I use the load URL command to the same thing?  
> From what I can tell, load URL puts the file into memory. I then  
> need to save it to disk but have no idea how to do so.
>
> Also, I noticed that instead of ending up with a binary file when  
> using put URL, I actually ended up with a text file with a .zip  
> extension. It did unzip with no problem. I'm guessing I have to do  
> some kind of magic to make the file into an actual zip file for Mac  
> OS X?


Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
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