On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 19:03 -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote: > Someone suggested to me that perhaps http & ftp might > shut down before the entire download completed. This > person suggested using wget instead. Sometimes a connection dies, various clients will simply abort at this stage (e.g. most web browsers), sometimes without even giving you an error notification, and it's up to you to do something about it. Wget, on the other hand, is designed to keep on trying by itself. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.