How to find files on the Internet

The Address Book is a good place to start to find files to download.

You can also use your normal web browser to track down and find the files. Once you have found a link to the file your after you can simply paste the link into the ByteCatcher Connect dialog. (Believe me it's worth spending a couple of seconds pasting a link into ByteCatcher to enjoy the piece of mind that it brings).

A way to find the file your after is to use the AltaVista Advanced search engine at http://www.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=aq

Type in a query like " 'File your after' and FTP" or " 'product name' and Download" this should allow you to find the file your after. Then just copy the link from the web page and paste it into the ByteCatcher connect dialog.

If you find a link to a file your after and it is a HTTP:// link you can't get the file from that address with ByteCatcher. But you may be able to simply find an FTP:// connection to the file on a mirror site etc. Or just try connecting to an FTP site with the same address. eg. the FTP site for www.Netscape.com is ftp.Netscape.com.

If you regularly download large files from an site that does use FTP you can always E-mail them and ask them nicely to put the files on an FTP server as well.