Jonathan,
But i am curious. If patches exist, why have they not been merged
into the 'vanilla' wget? Seems this is a very requested feature, and
an often encountered bug...
I am not familiar with wget developers, but I suppose they are
currently busy with other projects. The beauty of free source software
is that in such a situation users do not need to wait when the
software developers will make fixes. I guess wget developers
would like to make large file support in a portable way, which is
much more difficult than to make it for three specific platforms.
Anyway, redhat team is currently testing my LFS patch together with
a bunch of their other patches (bug 123524), so we can expect that
Fedora Core 3 will have wget with large file support.
Leonid