Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 04:09:39 +0200 From: Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> To: wa5qjh <wa5qjh@xmission.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 876, Issue 9 Message-ID: <CAM8r67A-7y0N3o2hZ2DT9jbxwOL80BAqZ2Os%2BwvVzaRU_r3zdw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <92E68329-299D-4AB9-B7A3-CABECC7A7004@xmission.com> References: <mailman.75.1616932802.75253.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <92E68329-299D-4AB9-B7A3-CABECC7A7004@xmission.com>
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 3:52 AM wa5qjh <wa5qjh@xmission.com> wrote: > It tells you that continuing the download at this time is futile, go do s= omething else. waiting , attempting to download the whole thing again, and = it will even if cached and ive watched it download it all again, means you = have to spend all that time waiting to see if its going to finish or not. B= elieve me, Its a big time and (precious) bandwidth waster! I've seen it get= to 99% downloaded then declared a file size mismatch and fetch as used, do= esn't employ the resume feature so whatever was downloaded last time isn't = used the next even if only 2 minutes prior. partial downloads are not cache= d. > I'm rather curious tho, since I'm pretty certain theres a good reason = for making the big downloads at or near last, what is it? ( no, seriously, = why? not being snarky here or anywhere in this message, honest! no time or = patience for that!) > Gary Corell > Ya gotta see time beyond the end of your nose Then chunks / resume download or "continue" feature like in wget would be helpful? Have you created a pkg ticked on bugzilla? :-) --=20 CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
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