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Re: Installing Cygwin from CDROM - Crude Method
- From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>
- To: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor at fruitbat dot org>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 11:26:27 -0700
- Subject: Re: Installing Cygwin from CDROM - Crude Method
- References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020530134530.02dcd398@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
Peter,
Wget handles FTP and can do the same checks to avoid redundant downloads
you mention. Does "fget" have any advantages over wget?
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 11:12 2002-05-30, Peter A. Castro wrote:
>...
> >
> > You might like wget then, if you get lots of disconnections. It can
> > reconnect automatically and pick up where it left off. A great time
> > saver for the highly automated! ;-)
>
>Or get a copy of 'fget' (an FTP version of wget). I run this nightly
>against a mirror to keep my image of Cygwin up to date. The nice thing
>about fget is it validates date & size of already downloaded files and
>skips them, thus only new or changed files actually get pulled. I've
>been thinging of packaging it for Cygwin, but I haven't had the time
>lately.
>--
>Peter A. Castro
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