Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-11-01 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/31/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tony Godshall wrote: On 10/30/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tony Godshall wrote: Perhaps the little wget could be called wg.

Re: RFE: run-time change of limit-rate multi-stream download

2007-11-01 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 L Walsh wrote: Don't know if anyone else has this problem, but sometimes when I'm downloading large files (500MB; most recently 4.2GB), I want to change the limit-rate without terminating the download and restarting. For example, during the

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-11-01 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 L Walsh wrote: Honest -- I hadn't read all the threads before my post... Great ideas Micah! :-) On the idea of 2 wgets -- there is a clever way to get by with 1. Put the optional functionality into separate run-time loadable files. SGI's

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-11-01 Thread L Walsh
Honest -- I hadn't read all the threads before my post... Great ideas Micah! :-) On the idea of 2 wgets -- there is a clever way to get by with 1. Put the optional functionality into separate run-time loadable files. SGI's Unix (and MS Windows) do this. The small wget then checks to see which

RFE: run-time change of limit-rate multi-stream download

2007-11-01 Thread L Walsh
Don't know if anyone else has this problem, but sometimes when I'm downloading large files (500MB; most recently 4.2GB), I want to change the limit-rate without terminating the download and restarting. For example, during the day when I'm on my computer, I might not want it to use more than

Re: RFE: run-time change of limit-rate multi-stream download

2007-11-01 Thread Steven M. Schweda
From: L Walsh Say one runs the first wget. Lets say it is a simple 1-DVD download. Then you start a 2nd download of another DVD. Instead of 2 copies of wget running and competing with each other, what if the 2nd copy told the 1st copy about the 2nd download, and the 2nd download was