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AGET(1) AGET(1)
NAME
aget - A multithreaded HTTP download accelerator
SYNOPSIS
aget [options] file ...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the aget commands. This manual page
was originally written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.
aget fetches HTTP URLs in a manner similar to wget, but segments the
retrieval into multiple parts to increase download speed. It can be
many times as fast as wget in some circumstances.
It is the starting point for a project attempting to replicate the
functionality of a MS Windows program called Flashget.
OPTIONS
-p port number
-l local file name
-h Show summary of options.
-v Show version of program.
-n Suggested number of threads
-f force using suggested number of threads
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0
Successful completion.
1
Application exited with failure.
-1
POSIX pthreads creation error occurred.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Say you want to download a URL using 10 threads, just type:
example% aget -n 10 http://www.enderunix.org/murat/barismanco-hibrahimsofrasi.mp3
AUTHOR
Aget tool is written by Murat Balaban, and project web page is:
http://www.enderunix.org/aget/
This manual page was written by Bruno Barrera C. <bruno@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <murat@enderunix.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Please see the accompanying COPYRIGHT file that comes with the tarball.
BUGS
This program does not support IPv6 yet.
AGET(1)