On 10 Jan 2002 at 17:09, Matt Butt wrote: > I've just tried to download a 3Gb+ file (over a network using HTTP) with > WGet and it died at exactly 2Gb. Can this limitation be removed?
In principle, changes could be made to allow wget to be configured for large file support, by using the appropriate data types (i.e. 'off_t' instead of 'long'). The logging code would be more complicated as there is no portable way to handle the data type in a printf-style function, so these would have to be converted to strings by a bespoke routine and the converted strings passed to the printf-style function. This would also slow down the operation of wget a little bit. A version of wget configured for large file support would also be slower in general than a version not configured for large file support - at least on a 32-bit machine. Large file support should probably be added to the TODO list at least. Quite a few people use wget to download .iso images of CD-ROMs at the moment; in the future, those same people are likely to want to use wget to download DVD-ROM images!
