Re: RFE: run-time change of limit-rate multi-stream download

2007-11-02 Thread L Walsh
Micah Cowan wrote: An interesting idea that Tony Lewis came up with was the ability to send Wget an interrupt (Ctrl-C), bringing up an interactive mode that allows one to modify configuration on-the-fly. He told me about it in response to an issue report I filed suggesting that Wget allow

Re: RFE: run-time change of limit-rate multi-stream download

2007-11-02 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 L Walsh wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: An interesting idea that Tony Lewis came up with was the ability to send Wget an interrupt (Ctrl-C), bringing up an interactive mode that allows one to modify configuration on-the-fly. He told me about it in

Re: RFE: run-time change of limit-rate multi-stream download

2007-11-01 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 L Walsh wrote: Don't know if anyone else has this problem, but sometimes when I'm downloading large files (500MB; most recently 4.2GB), I want to change the limit-rate without terminating the download and restarting. For example, during the

Re: RFE: run-time change of limit-rate multi-stream download

2007-11-01 Thread Steven M. Schweda
From: L Walsh Say one runs the first wget. Lets say it is a simple 1-DVD download. Then you start a 2nd download of another DVD. Instead of 2 copies of wget running and competing with each other, what if the 2nd copy told the 1st copy about the 2nd download, and the 2nd download was