From: Raymond Kelly (ray at domain phbrink.ie)
Date: Mon 31 May 1999 - 14:48:19 IST
Miles wrote:
>
> jplooney at domain compapp.dcu.ie wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 01:41:47PM +0100, Vincent Cunniffe mentioned:
> > > Simple syntax, reliable, configurable and powerful. One of it's
> > > major features is the resume feature : it'll just start downloading
> > > again at the end of the file where the last session left off.
> > > During a particularly nasty session during which Tinet disconnected
> > > me 3 times, I nonetheless managed to get Netscape 4.6 downloaded
> > > and installed without a hitch.
> Another one is nohup. Try the following:
> nohup wget -t 0 <website> &
> This is good for particularly dodgy connections. I once ddid this and
> d/led a 20Mb file with 30 dropped connections - damn thing just kept
> reconnecting until it got it.
nohup doesn't affect your connection just the fact that whatever you are
running will stay alive after you have killed the session that started
it. (methinks)
anyway
another BIG advantage is it's ability to go through proxy's. I use it
here to pull "popular" sites into squid's cache during off hours. it's
background, recursive and span flags being _very_ handy. On one
particular day after having set this going the night b4 I had a Q of ppl
wondering what went wrong when they were able to dl a 4 MB trados
tutorial in something like 3 seconds :)
For the record I've got one 64k line between 70 people so this has some
very worthwhile uses
Ray ...
another satisfied customer
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