curl-users
Re: deprecated -c switch
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:12:53 +0100 (MET)
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Robert Linden wrote:
> I got the new curl-version (7.6.1) and see that -c is now deprecated, and
> has been replaced by -C. With -C I have to give the offset myself, and it
> therefore doesn't work with multiple-resumes from different offsets each.
It should if you use '-C -'. That is supposed to replace the former -c. I'm
in a shortage of single-letters! ;-)
> At least that's how I understand it. I liked -c but it also doesn't work
> with multiple files, because it only get's the file-size once. I fixed
> that with the following patch to main.c:
Please use 'diff -c' or 'diff -u' to produce a more useful patch.
> This utilises a new configuration-variable "auto_resume_from" which is
> set for -c and unset for -C. The problem was that "resume_from" wasn't 0
> after the first file, so for subsequent ones the new offset wasn't
> calculated.
It sounds like a good approach. At least if '-C -' doesn't work, but we
should probably make sure that works. Possibly with a fix like the one you
suggest.
-- Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/Received on 2001-02-28