Usenet going bye bye

[David Nicol]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Brian Kelsay <ripcrd at gmail.com> wrote:
>  they have cycled connections so big downloads die

both ftp and http support "start from position" semantics.  wget knows
how to use them.  I always use wget for big downloads.


wget -c url to restart something (see man wget for possible things
that can go wrong)

wget -t inf  -w 5m url to have wget keep retrying, waiting 5m between attempts.