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fcorbelli edited this page Sep 28, 2026 · 2 revisions

curl, wget... or zpaqfranz. On a bare Windows server, the last one is already there.

Quick summary

Windows 64 bit only. download gets a file from the Internet, optionally checking its hash.

Power user usage

  • -force overwrite the output file
  • -space do not check the output path
  • -checktxt z test the hash in z (length 32=MD5, 40=SHA-1, 64=SHA-256)
  • Not in the builds made with -DOPEN.

Lo spiegone

Dispatched as command W to download() (inside #ifdef ZPAQFULL and #ifdef _WIN64).

Real-world examples

Download

zpaqfranz download https://www.1.it/2.cpp ./2.cpp

Download and check SHA-256, then MD5

zpaqfranz download http://www.1.it/3.cpp z:\3.cpp -checktxt http://www.1.it/3.sha256
zpaqfranz download http://www.1.it/4.cpp z:\4.cpp -checktxt http://www.1.it/4.md5

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