wget: A good download manager?

[kwall@kurtwerks.com]

Feigning erudition, Joel Hammer wrote:
% Just a question for my own information.
% 
% wget in "info wget" claims to be a good download manager. That is to say,
% it can restart the download if the connection is lost. Does someone have
% experience who can verify this?

Yes. wget can resume failed downloads. So can most ftp clients. It's
called "reget".

% And, if you have experience with wget, do you have any experiences with
% wget which might be useful to share with someone just starting to use it?

I don't think I'd consider wget a download manager.

Kurt
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