Jan Prikryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > How come that sometimes wget does not continue to download a file
> > where it left off, but starts from the beginning again? It can't be
> > that the file has changed on the server side because if I interrupt
> > a wget session and then immediately start it again, it does not start
> > from where it stopped.
>
> I think (but it's not guaranteed) that wget tries a partial download
> of a file only during the same download session. After interrupting
> wget manually and starting it again, wget cannot be sure that the file
> with the same name as the one that wget wants to download really
> composes a part of that file and that it contains the same data.
But it will assume that is indeed the case if you run call it with the -c /
--continue option.
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