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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> >> The -O is to interrupt broken downloads and the - downloads to stdin?
> >
> >> From the wget man page:
> >
> >       -O file
> >       --output-document=file
> >           The documents will not be written to the appropriate files, but 
> > all
> >           will be concatenated together and written to file.  If file 
> > already
> >           exists, it will be overwritten.  If the file is -, the documents
> >           will be written to standard output.  Including this option 
> > automat-
> >           ically sets the number of tries to 1.
> 
> The above seems to write to standard output, not play the file.

That's why you pipe it to mpg123, which plays it from stdin.

> mpg123 http://......../filename.mp3 worked (except for connection speed).

You can forget about wget then...

> Is there some easy way to find the links without downloading the 
> .m3u or .pls file?

If the link is only in the file then you'll have tough luck, unless
you download it.

> SW7.1 mp3.tgz contains version 0.59r (the one you are warned not to 
> use). The site provides 0.59q for rpm and probably this is more 
> secure.  I hope the security problem pertains mainly to people with 
> broadband and/or servers.

There is little to worry about. You can be absolutely safe by running
a chroot environment if you're paranoid.

David
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