Thanks for the ideas about wget and uget.  I haven't figured out
what URLs to provide to them though.

I also read that the Opera browser does a better job than Firefox
as far as resuming downloads.  I could use Opera when I'm going
to download a large file.

I tried installing Manjaro, but ran into another problem.  Sorry
I didn't write down what it was  So I was back to Arch for another
install.  This one took about 5 hours.  The thing that threw me
this time was I was trying to use gpt rather than mbr.  I had used
gpt on the machine I installed Arch on last week and that machine
is several years older than the machine I was working on this time.
After about 4 or 5 attempts with gpt, I decided to try mbr.  That
worked like a charm.   The new system has about 90 tasks
processes running.  My previous Fedora install had over 180
tasks running on it.  I have the feeling some of the Arch tasks
aren't really needed either, but I'm happy for now to cut out some
of the junk Fedora runs.

-- 
Brian
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http://webEbenezer.net
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