[ale] how does WGET resume downloading a file when interrupted ?

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Courtney Thomas wrote:
> That is,..... what is the mechanism by which wget 'knows' where it left 
> off in the downloaded fragment and what is the mechanism by which it 
> finds that place in the source file ?

I'm pretty sure that it looks at the size of your existing file and 
compares it to the size of the file you're trying to retrieve.

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Until later, Geoffrey