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Re: Installing Cygwin from CDROM - Crude Method
- From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor at fruitbat dot org>
- To: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:51:14 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Installing Cygwin from CDROM - Crude Method
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Peter,
>
> Wget handles FTP and can do the same checks to avoid redundant downloads
> you mention. Does "fget" have any advantages over wget?
The annoying "feature" of wget is that it always creates a directory
hierarchy under the hostname. fget lets me specify the top-level
directory name to store the retrieved files under. It can also make an
*exact* mirror, by removing local files that aren't on the remote server.
And it will also do simultaneous/parallel sessions to multiple hosts.
wget seems to have trouble with recurse FTP directories, though I may not
be using the most current version of it.
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
>
> At 11:12 2002-05-30, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> >...
> > >
> > > You might like wget then, if you get lots of disconnections. It can
> > > reconnect automatically and pick up where it left off. A great time
> > > saver for the highly automated! ;-)
> >
> >Or get a copy of 'fget' (an FTP version of wget). I run this nightly
> >against a mirror to keep my image of Cygwin up to date. The nice thing
> >about fget is it validates date & size of already downloaded files and
> >skips them, thus only new or changed files actually get pulled. I've
> >been thinging of packaging it for Cygwin, but I haven't had the time
> >lately.
> >--
> >Peter A. Castro
>
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