At 10:30 AM -0400 3/5/02, Erik Price wrote: >On Friday, May 3, 2002, at 10:00 AM, Dan O'Brien wrote: > >> I want to install Gimp and some other stuff, but my ISP cuts >>me off every two hours, interrupting my downloads. I have speed >>download, which allows me to resume browser downloads, so I was >>wondering if I could download my files through download accelerator >>via IE, and then put them sommewhere and tell fink to build them. > >I thought that curl supported resuming downloads. > ><snip src="man curl"> > -C/--continue-at <offset> > Continue/Resume a previous file transfer at the > given offset. The given offset is the exact number > of bytes that will be skipped counted from the > beginning of the source file before it is trans- > fered to the destination. If used with uploads, > the ftp server command SIZE will not be used by > curl. Upload resume is for FTP only. HTTP resume > is only possible with HTTP/1.1 or later servers. ></snip> > >Not sure how Fink negotiates this, though. BTW, although I have no >empirical evidence or reason to believe this, I would put my money >on curl or wget being more robust than any browser's file transfer >capabilities. > > I recently had trouble getting the latest abiword tarball during a fink install - very slow download, that kept failing, and I couldn't goggle the file anywhere else. Fink wanted to overwrite the file and start over every time, which meant I lost all the previous work. For some reason, I decided to just have fink fetch the package (fink fetch package_name), instead of doing the full install. This time, fink offered the choice to resume the download - worked like a charm. The download still eventually failed, but I was able to get a bit more of it each time.
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