more background below...
Richard Elling wrote:
Graham Perrin wrote:
Intending to experiment with ZFS, I have been struggling with what
should be a simple download routine.
Sun Download Manager leaves a great deal to be desired.
In the Online Help for Sun Download Manager there's a section on
troubleshooting, but if it causes *anyone* this much trouble
<http://fuzzy.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/sundownloadmanagercrap/> then
it should, surely, be fixed.
Sun Download Manager -- a FORCED step in an introduction to
downloadable software from Sun -- should be PROBLEM FREE in all
circumstances. It gives an extraordinarily poor first impression.
Though it is written in Java, and JavaIO has no concept of file
size limits, the downloads are limited to 2 GBytes. This makes SDM
totally useless for me. I filed the bug about 4 years ago, and it
is still not being fixed (yes, they know about it) I recommend you
use something else, there are many good alternatives.
The important feature is the ability to restart a download in the middle.
Downloads cost real money, so if you have to restart from the beginning,
then it costs even more money. Again, there are several good downloaders
out there which offer this feature.
-- richard
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