[CLUE-Talk] wget

Matt Clauson mec at dotorg.org
Thu May 2 13:55:08 MDT 2002


On Thursday 02 May 2002 01:41 pm, Grant Johnson wrote:
> This is SO COOL!!!  I just tried it for the first time.  I was
> downloading a PDF from a site with more traffic than horsepower, and
> it kept failing midstream.  This picks up where it left off, retries,
> etc. It is amazing.
>
> BTW, the -p and -r options together with, say,  a -l0 pointed at say
> dmoz or yahoo could fill a hard drive real fast, while saturating a
> T1. Don't do it to anyone you like.......

So *THAT'S* how I download the Internet...  I think I need more disk 
space.  *grin*

--mec



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