How to continue an aborted d/l-ed BIG file ?

I'm trying to use 'curl' to d/l a 11Mb binary of 'wine' via my
dialup connection, which aborted after 309 Kb d/l.

curl -I http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wine/
wine-0.9.49-i486-1kjz.tgz >> garrHdr
looks OK and shows me:----------
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:13:13 GMT
Content-Length: 11754882 <-- YES !! ~ 11Mb
Content-Type: application/x-tar
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian)
Last-Modified: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:32:06 GMT
ETag: "113fba-b35d82-6aac5180"
Content-Encoding: x-gzip
Via: 1.1 nc5-rba (NetCache NetApp/5.5R6D17DEBUG1)

Whereas the man says:
Use "-C -" to tell curl to automatically find out
where/how to resume the transfer. It then uses the
given output/input files to figure that out.

When I try:
curl -C - -o http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wine/
wine-0.9.49-i486-1kjz.tgz
I get the error mesg: "curl: no URL specified!"

So then I tried:
curl -C - http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wine/
wine-0.9.49-i486-1kjz.tgz >> newFileID2

But it just started to re-d/l from the BEGINNING & aborted after 903Kb !

Please, what should I do ?

== Chris Glur.

problems@gmail wrote :

> When I try:
> curl -C - -o http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wine/
> wine-0.9.49-i486-1kjz.tgz
> I get the error mesg: "curl: no URL specified!"

Thats because you haven't given in the output filename so curl assumes
that the URL is the filename. Try this instead:

curl -C - -o wine-0.9.49-i486-1kjz.tgz
http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourc...-i486-1kjz.tgz
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Thomas O.

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