[Tfug] picking up where you left off

Paul Lemmons paul at lemmons.name
Sat Sep 16 14:05:02 MST 2006


Wget will do it. I am not in front of a machine with it installed right 
now but I think it is the "-c" for "continue" option. I have not used 
curl but I suspect it can do it as well.

erich wrote:
>    I want to download a CD image. Unfortuntely I only have dialup,
> and CD images typically take longer to download than the 4-hour
> session time usually afforded  by dialup.
>
>    I once herd of a utility that would somhow monitor the file transfer
> process and "bookmark" the partial complete point.
>
>    I know this is technically feasable under Gentoo's emerge -f. If
> emerge is cut off in a file fetch process, it will simply pick up
> at the cutoff point. Unfortunately, emerge is not good at fetching
> CD images.
>
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