Hi guys, I just checked, I believe the version of wget I am running is from 2003 (and I have been using it for much mich longer than that ...) At some point I even wrote scripts around wget batch jobs I used to run ...
But I am kind of stuck in Windows. And things happen on a different time line there. Just the other day I noticed that I was getting no joy downloading certain files and only after that had happened a few times did I realize that the file size was shown as negative. That is something that I have seen when the number is too big as an unsigned integer to also be interpreted as a 2's complement integer in the available number of bits. And then it dawned on me that my old wget may not be up to files greater than, say, 2GB. Time for a new download. I am being pointed at sourceforge, even by the German c't magazine, which is usually pretty clued up. But I remember having heard bad things about sourceforge. And the version they offer is 1.11.4, whereas your version on gnu.org is 1.18 or so. So, is there a "secret" new place hosting a newer version for Windows? Or is the 1.11 on sourceforge actually okay? And - while I am already asking all these stupid questions - would that version actually handle larger file sizes already? Thanks, guys, Gerd (and I mustn't forget to send a note to c't as well ...)
