Kate Turner wrote:
Merlin wrote in gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical:
I am trying to download the german "old" table on: http://download.wikimedia.org/#wikipedia The link says that the size of that file is 13.97 GiB.
Howver, the file is just 2GB (definatelly) and there are no aditional files like described on the wikipedia download help page.
are you sure the program you are using to download it supports large files?
? 101> curl >/dev/null http://download.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/20050516_old_table.sql.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr. Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed 22 14.0G 22 3.1G 0 0 27.5M 0 0:08:40 0:01:55 0:06:45 28.2M
merlin
kate.
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Hi,
I am having serious trouble in updating the curl sw for my running system. That is not as trivial as it seams. That said, I have read that many people do have the same problem in downloading the larger files. Is there are reason not to place the files on an ftp server? That seams to be the apropriate protocol for file transfers. Why http? I can not see a reason, but I might lack technical knowledge for this. Can somebody shed some light on this?
Thank you in advance,
merlin