Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020530112458.02762510@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 11:26:27 -0700 To: "Peter A. Castro" , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: Installing Cygwin from CDROM - Crude Method In-Reply-To: References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020530134530.02dcd398@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/