Reply to message from Wolfgang Pfeiffer on Sun, 10 Dec 2000, 20:45 <+0100>:
> Reply to message from hello on Sun, 10 Dec 2000, 16:56 <+0100>:
>
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to manage three downloads at the same
> > time by running my netscape 4.75 three times on
> > different workspaces.
> > [ ... ]
>
> I'd try 'wget' -- I think there are some other tools for stable
> downloading stuff ... but this tool seems to be OK ... some time ago when
> I was downloading some rpm or so and the connection broke down, wget
> successfully reconnected to the download area *without* my intervention
> and seemed to continue the download at the point where it was thrown out
> of the phone line before, i.e. it doesn't seem to start the whole download
> from the beginning after a phone line breakdown ... it seems to reconnect
> by default after broken downloads, [ ... ]
Ummh ... *no*: just a little correction: I don't think wget would be able
to open up a phone line by itself, but as long as the phone line is
running, it seems to be able to resume a download that was interrupted
by other problems than a real breakdown of a phone line ...
Apologies ...
Wolfgang
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