DownLoad with resume.

[celtic at sairyx.org]

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: DownLoad with resume.
> From: Herman Aa <hermanaa at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, February 14, 2006 9:02 am
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> 
> I have been on Ubuntu 5.10 for 6 months. (Way to go!!)
> Reading Ubuntu-users list for about 3 months.
> 
> I have a dial-up connection. I can download 10-12MB per hour if all is 
> well.
> My tel.line limits the download speed.
> 
> I need a good download-manager that can 'resume' (can resume a partially 
> downloaded file).
> 
> The default-download in Ubuntu has no resume.
> I checked Synaptic. Resume capability is not mentioned for the availabl 
> programs, not even with 'bittorrent'.
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a DL-manager with resume available for Ubuntu?
> 
> Herman in PHL. (using Linux-Ubuntu. No more Windows).
> 
> 
> -- 
> ubuntu-users mailing list
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users

If you can manage it, try `wget'. A simple download is done like this:

$ wget "http://www.someurl.com/somefile.gz"

If it fails, it will typically resume downloading automatically. You can
even hit CTRL-C to cancel wget at any time, and then later;

$ wget -c "http://www.someurl.com/somefile.gz"

.. and it magically resumes downloading. It's very nifty.

 - Yuki.