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  • From: "M.L." <mlubrano AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergeyli AT pisem.net>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Tester wanted: proz as an alternative wget downloader
  • Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 23:58:25 +0100

On Samedi 18 Janvier 2003 19:13, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> I've found out yesterday that proz has the following bad habit. If a
> piece of the file to download already exists, it wouldn't continue. It
> can only abort or backup the piece. I was downloading GNUWin II ISO with

Even with the resume flag ?
Maybe the server don't support resuming... (running MS ftp ?)

> wget, and interrupting it from time to time and then starting again,
> with `wget -c'. It went fine. In the middle I recalled that there's
> prozilla, cast it, and tried `proz -r' on the same URL. It only offered
> me to "abort" or "backup the file". How does its "recovery" mechanism
> work then if it can't simply continue?
>
> M.L. wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >as discussed in a later thread, proz may be a good alternate downloader...
> >tester wanted:
> >
> >http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1777
> >
> >(use at your own risks ;)
> >
> >Bye,
> >Mat.

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