Re: [Bug] wget and files >2GB

2004-07-31 Thread Max Bowsher
Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Naturally, I eventually fell back to this option, using Mozilla (which >> downloaded the file, but told be that I was downloading >> KB of KB at KB/s . >> >> >> I will be following up on the lftp suggestion for now, and adding >> examining

RE: [Bug] wget and files >2GB

2004-07-31 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Naturally, I eventually fell back to this option, using Mozilla (which > downloaded the file, but told be that I was downloading > KB of KB at KB/s . > > > I will be following up on the lftp suggestion for now, and adding > examining the possibility of enhancing wget to

Re: [Bug] wget and files >2GB

2004-07-30 Thread Max Bowsher
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: > > > One possibility: Try a native Windows tool. Internet Explorer or the ftp > that comes with Windows might be able to handle it. There are other free > (as in $0, not necessarily OS) possibilities. > > As much as one might like to use open source tools t

Re: [Bug] wget and files >2GB

2004-07-30 Thread Robert Pendell
Sorry but that won't work either. Reason being is that even most windows download managers have this problem. Getright is one and I think that there are several others. Most don't support beyond 2GB. On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 17:43:23 -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: > > > One possibilit

RE: [Bug] wget and files >2GB

2004-07-30 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
One possibility: Try a native Windows tool. Internet Explorer or the ftp that comes with Windows might be able to handle it. There are other free (as in $0, not necessarily OS) possibilities. As much as one might like to use open source tools that one is familiar with, sometimes it may be mor

Re: [Bug] wget and files >2GB

2004-07-30 Thread Max Bowsher
Hack Kampbjorn wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: >> On attempting to wget a DVD image, wget ended the transfer at 2GB. >> >> Could the maintainer look into this, please? > > No, I cannot wget has never supported 2 Gbyte files. Thanks for the info, I was not aware of this. > Some Linux distributions > h

Re: [Bug] wget and files >2GB

2004-07-30 Thread Hack Kampbjorn
Max Bowsher wrote: On attempting to wget a DVD image, wget ended the transfer at 2GB. Could the maintainer look into this, please? No, I cannot wget has never supported 2 Gbyte files. Some Linux distributions have written their own Large File support, but never in a portable way. You are welcome

Re: [Bug] wget and files >2GB

2004-07-30 Thread Chris Herborth
Max Bowsher wrote: On attempting to wget a DVD image, wget ended the transfer at 2GB. Could the maintainer look into this, please? As an alternative, you could try using lftp; it supports a wide range of protocols and features (sort of like a mutant cross between ncftp, wget, and sftp). -- Chris

Re: [Bug] wget and files >2GB

2004-07-29 Thread Robert Pendell
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 downlo

[Bug] wget and files >2GB

2004-07-29 Thread Max Bowsher
On attempting to wget a DVD image, wget ended the transfer at 2GB. Could the maintainer look into this, please? Thanks. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.ht