use download instead of wget

This works better on windows. Unzip must be installed though: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/?source=typ_redirect Maybe use one of the Julia zip packages?
iblislin · Dec 5, 2015 · b513898 · b513898
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diff --git a/src/util.jl b/src/util.jl
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ function get_mnist_ubyte()
   filenames = [k => joinpath(mnist_dir, v) for (k,v) in filenames]
   if !all(isfile, values(filenames))
     cd(mnist_dir) do
-      run(`wget http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~bx3/data/mnist.zip`)
-      run(`unzip -u mnist.zip`)
+      mnist_dir = download("http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~bx3/data/mnist.zip", "mnist.zip")
+      run(`unzip -u $mnist_dir`)
     end
   end
   return filenames