Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1587 mails)

[budr@xxxxxxxxxxx (Bud Rogers)]

Lawrence Sayre <lsayre@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Is there any way to pick up and resume a download that was not
> completed, and have it start up where it left off, rather than re-write
> the file and start over?
> 
> I'm 79 0one downloading StarOffice 5.0, and I lost my connection.  I'd
> hate to have to start this one over!  

I realize this is not exactly the answer you're looking for, but wget will
do that.  It will resume where it left off if it gets interrupted.  It will
run from a command line, in the background, or from a cron job.

Netscape is handy for finding things, but not always the best way to
download things.  I usually poke around with netscape til I find the proper
URL of the file I want, then go back with wget to retrieve it.  Especially
if it's a large download.


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