in reply to get.bat halts

Instead of using get.bat, which likely is the pl2bat-ified version of the GET utility that comes with LWP, consider using LWP::Simple's mirror subroutine. Or maybe use wget for your downloading.

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Re^2: get.bat halts
by PhilHibbs (Hermit) on Aug 08, 2007 at 12:24 UTC
    Thanks, I hadn't heard of LWP, its name isn't exactly obvious.
      Q:\>perldoc GET ... SEE ALSO lwp-mirror, LWP ...

      The nice thing about Perl programs is that you can look at the source for further hints