aget [PSARC/2009/159 FastTrack timeout 03/13/2009]

James Carlson james.d.carlson at sun.com
Fri Mar 6 12:50:55 PST 2009


James Walker writes:
>       Aget is a program for mutli-threaded HTTP downloading in the 
>       text mode. It fetches HTTP URLs in a manner similar to wget, but 
>       segments the retrieval into multiple parts to increase download
>       speed, while each parts could be resumed automatically once 
>       download failure occurs. Aget can be many times as fast as wget
>       in some circumstances.

Why aget and not puf?  Have you compared them?

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