Alternative to 'get'? Trying to download a file via HTTP

[Steve Bertrand]

> I am running FreeBSD 4.9R. My goal is to download an .tar.gz file from
> an HTTP site?
>
> I thought "get" would do that, but it's not installed (unless the
> command is not get).
>
> Any suggestions?

...also:

# wget http://www.server.com/dir/file.tar.gz

or:

# wget -b http://www.server.com/dir/file.tar.gz

to run it in the background.

Steve

>
> Thank you,
>
> ...D
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