Adding a -c flag to wget will make it continue an aborted download if the server will let it. It'll probably still fail but at least you can recover.
On 17 May 2009, at 01:04, kilucas <kevin.lu...@concave.co.uk> wrote: > > It took me 6 attempts to retrieve the latest Windows binary from > across a number of mirrors and I'm now running into the same problem > trying to retrieve the source of 3.4.2 and 3.4.1 using wget ( I don't > know how to detect or use mirrors by this method). In all cases the > download seems to freeze after various periods of time. > > Is there any special trick to getting these downloads to complete > perhaps or are the mirrors just having a bad week? > > Is there any specific mirror that people find especially reliable > perhaps? > > Thanks > > Kevin > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---