On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 17:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've a problem with wget, and hope that you'll be able to help me : > > I've to download biological DBs on a weekly basis and I use wget.on a > PC-linux system > The problem is that one on the DBs has recently raised the size of... > 2186384957 bytes ! > (cf ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/blast/db/nt.Z) > > I noticed an error during download. > In fact, the file was correctly downloaded, but wget returned an error > status, and the progress status showed a negative progress (from 0 to > -101%). > The header of the log file was as follow : > > --16:25:38-- ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/%2Fblast/db/nt.Z > => `nt.Z' > ==> CWD not required. > ==> PORT ... done. ==> RETR nt.Z ... done. > Length: -2,108,582,339 > > I use the latest version (1.8.2), that I tried to compile with the 'large > file' options (-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64), without any success...
wget 1.8.2 couldn't work with files larger than 2gb Please try the patch from this URL: http://bugs.debian.org/137989 I added it to the Debian wget package and didn't get any mail that it doesn't work. -- Noèl Köthe
