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Date:	Thu, 30 May 2002 11:26:27 -0700
To:	"Peter A. Castro" <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Installing Cygwin from CDROM - Crude Method
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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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