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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:53:10 -0400
From: Robert Pendell <shinji257 AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [Bug] wget and files >2GB
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This is a known issue with wget and not an issue with the port to
cygwin.  This has been reported to the developers and might be fixed
in the next version.

From the wget mailing list:

Quote from Hrvoje Niksic:

> That's a bug in all released versions of Wget, sorry.  In the next
> release downloading files larger than 2G might become possible.

Hope that helps.

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:42:03 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> On attempting to wget a DVD image, wget ended the transfer at 2GB.
> 
> Could the maintainer look into this, please?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Max.
> 
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