Wget CVS

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue May 24 13:41:30 UTC 2005


On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:26:56AM -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
> With FC4 due to be released shortly, I added the CVS of wget to our ftp
> server: ftp://ftp.tqmcube.com/pub/wget-1.10-1.cvs.i386.rpm
> Allegedly, this version offers large file support (> 2gb). In the spirit
> of KISS I really like wget. I use the --limit-rate option to prevent a
> large download from eating up all of the available bandwidth.

The current FC3 version of wget has large file support, according to its
changelog:

* Tue Sep 14 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.de> 1.9.1-15
- added strtol fix from Leonid Petrov, reenable LFS

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