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Re: Curl downloads file that is way too big

From: Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ml.crlu.36_at_letterboxes.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 01:36:42 +0100

On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, at 16:22, David Niklas wrote:
> Hello,
> I was trying to download this file from archive.org see here:
> https://archive.org/download/wpa-tables-renderman/

... where the file mentioned in your wpa.txt file is shown to be 38.9 GB
in size,

> and then suddenly, I got a message that the file size limit on my
> system was exceeded, yet the file's size, according to the server and
> the html page where I got the link from states it a MUCH smaller.

is the 38.9 GB the small filesize you expect or a different size?

What size did you expect, and why?

-- 
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
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Received on 2015-07-14