[ Sorry for taking so long to answer! ]
Lachlan Cranswick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> It would also then be easy for WGET to see that a file had not been
> >> downloaded correctly from a VMS FTPD server.
> >
> >I'm not sure how this follows from downloading to .<filename>.
>
> Hopefully the following is sort of clear cut (If not ask again).
>
> If the download terminated before the file was 100% complete - it
> will not update "filename{nowold}" by doing a move of ."filename" to
> "filename".
But the problem is that the size information is missing, therefore
Wget doesn't *know* whether the download is 100% complete.
In some cases it can know because it receives a network error. But
often all Wget gets is an EOF, and file is not done. Without size
information, it's simply not possible to point out, "the file is now
done."
