[Bug] wget and files >2GB

Robert Pendell shinji257@gmail.com
Fri Jul 30 02:58:00 GMT 2004


This is a known issue with wget and not an issue with the port to
cygwin.  This has been reported to the developers and might be fixed
in the next version.

>From the wget mailing list:

Quote from Hrvoje Niksic:

> That's a bug in all released versions of Wget, sorry.  In the next
> release downloading files larger than 2G might become possible.

Hope that helps.

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:42:03 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> On attempting to wget a DVD image, wget ended the transfer at 2GB.
> 
> Could the maintainer look into this, please?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Max.
> 
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