[plug] wget

[russ]

Not what I was hoping to hear, I thought wget was my friend. :(

Thanks Peter.


Peter Wright wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 09:31:25AM +0800, russ wrote:
> > Hi,
> [ ... ]
> > It didn't pick up where it had stopped. Is ctrl C bad for wget? What
> > should I have done?
> >
> > I always start wget with this command line:  wget -c http://.....
> 
> -c is the continuation flag, which I think will only "work" on ftp
> downloads and on http servers that can handle a... damn, I don't know
> the correct term, but let's call it a "get-range" command. Which I
> don't think all do.
> 
> > Should I start wget without the -c and only use it when I'm trying
> > to restart a download?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> But it still might not work.
> 
> Sorry. :)