I don't think puf is totally functioning equal to aget. ;-) puf, just as its name, fetches bunch of URLs in parallel, more like another wget with parallelism. However, it cannot simply download a large file (i.e. a kernel archive like, an .iso image, etc.) in parallel, esp. over a not so fast network. Aget can fill this gap by dividing the large file downloaded into multiple parts, each of which is handled by a pthread, and facilitates the falling over from download failures.
Moreover, aget is based on BSD(-like) license, and its been ported to OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux, etc. long before. This is another reason for selecting aget as multi-threaded HTTP file downloader on Solaris. Thanks, -Louis On 2009/03/07, 04:50, James Carlson wrote: > James Walker writes: > >> Aget is a program for mutli-threaded HTTP downloading in the >> text mode. It fetches HTTP URLs in a manner similar to wget, but >> segments the retrieval into multiple parts to increase download >> speed, while each parts could be resumed automatically once >> download failure occurs. Aget can be many times as fast as wget >> in some circumstances. >> > > Why aget and not puf? Have you compared them? > >
