On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Jima wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Mike Miller wrote:
>> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, John J. Trammell wrote:
>>> Have you tried wget?  I've never had a problem with it.
>>
>> lynx -source works great for a single file.
>> wget is great for collections of files.
>
> wget is great for either, actually, especially with its download resuming
> capabilities.  (Ever have an ISO download die halfway through?)  To
> (again) quote someone from the UCLA LUG, "wget is my tiny little god."


Nice.  I'm quite sure that lynx does not do that.

I mostly use "lynx -source" for downloading journal articles in PDF 
format.  They always complete.  For bigger files, it sounds like wget has 
a substantial advantage.

Mike

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