Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
3) is there a RELIABLE method of downloading such large files that will ALWAYS resume an interrupted download rather than downloading the same bytes over again???
$ wget -c --passive-ftp ftp://sld.tld/bla.iso
+-+-+-+-+- $ man wget
-c --continue Continue getting a partially-downloaded file. This is useful when you want to finish up a download started by a previous instance of Wget, or by another program. +-+-+-+-+-
works great.
-- shrek-m