Re: [LUG] wget

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Stone wrote:
> I am comming accross a wierdity using wget. I will typically type the
> following...
>
> $ wget -c ftp://ftp.someserver.net/path/to/file
>
> at 1st all is ok, but then sometimes after stopping and re-starting the
> file/server/wget gets an "unauthoritive" file size, usually smaller than
> the current ammount of the file that i have. (eg 110MB file, i have 50 MB
> it says 45 MB !!) wget then says that it will still continue to download
> the file but the percentage meter reads 110%... 115% etc.etc..
>
> Any deas what is goin' on ?

No - could it be a resumed request? ftp supports resuming a
transfer, and the size would be the size remaining or some such.

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