James Sparenberg wrote:

> All,
>    To do something we need internally (maybe later externally I
> don't know) we need to use either wget or curl.  The question is
> what are the advantages of each?  I notice that urpmi defaults to
> curl, and usually Mandrake has a viable justification for what it
> does,(that I trust) so perhaps someone could tell be just what is
> the advantage of one over the other?
> 
> James

Seriously, you should use rsync.   One user states that "rsync is 
everything that ftp (ie curl, wget, etc) ought to have been".

It is also much faster downloading a new version with unchanged name by 
using a special incremental download and update-in-place technique that 
none of the ftp or html downloaders have.

See "man rsync".

-- 
Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]

Web site: http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst/






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