TheDcoder

@coderusa Not sure why you keep calling it an "egg drop" but it's easy enough to implement a command to call Run to run a script.

Really? Back in the day it worked very well on my ancient low-powered Intel Celeron-based notebook. Hmmm... that sounds easy enough to implement.

It can actually, if you have WINE installed What is an egg drop?

Wow, mIRC can do GUIs too? And what part does AutoIt play exactly if mIRC is already doing everything? Bad luck, you missed out on this: (Made by yours truly )

Python - AutoIt - mIRC is a wild combo

Quite an interesting idea, right up my ally of making quick and jank solutions like this

Not sure how CMD works but *nix terminals support "terminal codes" which can change the behaviour of the terminal... something like changing the terminal's text interpreter's encoding option

Is that even a thing in Windows 11 anymore? I used to love those effects in Windows 7 (Ah the nostalgia)

Well bud guess what... do you know that there is a wget2 now? That's right, they made a literal 2nd part of wget, just like in the movies It's a completely new program that was written from the ground up and it has many neat features: So it might be able to replace aria2 for you, give it a go. You can find the prebuilt EXE here: https://github.com/rockdaboot/wget2/releases/latest I had completely forgotten about this until just a few days ago

May I should've used "must" instead of "can" in this sentence Either remove it entirely or change /dev/null to a proper file path of the file to be downloaded.

Ah okay, I thought you got the idea after looking at the example I provided where I used the byte ranges trick to actually download 0 bytes while getting the final download URL The equation is pretty simple actually, you get double to wear and tear since you're writing double the data (once for downloading and once for combining). So if you download a large file the impact would be a lot more compared to downloading a small file. Awww bud it's no biggie, don't mention it It's been so long ago that I forgot the entire context of that bud... You couldn't get it to work? The first aria2 example command I gave you uses curl to fetch the final download URL. This is the command: curl -L -s -w '%{url_effective}' -r 0-0 -o /dev/null --cookie $cookies_file $url It will send the final URL to standard output while downloading 0 bytes (you can adjust value for the output (-o) switch since /dev/null doesn't exist in Windows)

@TheSaint You forgot to mention your bud who gave you the idea of using curl with byte ranges 😢 In any case, the vast majority of people won't need to use curl to do this sort of crippled multi-threaded downloading, there's a much better program for that called aria2 and it's a dedicated CLI downloader program and supports multi-threaded downloading natively... so it doesn't have to combine the separate parts later on and cause double the wear and tear as it would with curl

Yes bud, used it all the time. I see that you are indeed using TABs

Gawd, didn't you say that you were configuring the number of spaces that were inserted when you hit Tab? Let me find the quote...

Yes bud, it does, I am tired of pretending that it doesn't And spaces defeat that purpose because they are inflexible unlike TABs which can be of any size depending on the user's preference. On small screens it is desirable to only have 2-character wide gap, but if your code is using spaces then you're out of luck, you have to muck around and forget about sharing your changes. Not at all bud, not at all, all coders should be aware of the implications of using spaces and tabs, that is the reason why I am kind of hijacking your thread A responsible coder should use TABs unless there is a very good reason not to. The people creating those editors are to be blamed for propagating the continued use of spaces in this modern age. So you shouldn't rely on them to pick the right approach for you. Well bud I hope you understand now, hopefully I have enlightened some of you. Peace! 🕊️ P.S. I do apologize for the momentary interruption caused by my passionate posts regarding this topic.