[Bug-wget] wget for windows - current build?

[address@hidden]

Hi guys, 

I just checked, I believe the version of wget I am running is from 2003 (and I 
have been using it for much mich longer than that ...) At some point I even 
wrote scripts around wget batch jobs I used to run ... 

But I am kind of stuck in Windows. And things happen on a different time line 
there. 

Just the other day I noticed that I was getting no joy downloading certain 
files and only after that had happened a few times did I realize that the file 
size was shown as negative. That is something that I have seen when the number 
is too big as an unsigned integer to also be interpreted as a 2's complement 
integer in the available number of bits. And then it dawned on me that my old 
wget may not be up to files greater than, say, 2GB. 

Time for a new download. 

I am being pointed at sourceforge, even by the German c't magazine, which is 
usually pretty clued up. But I remember having heard bad things about 
sourceforge. And the version they offer is 1.11.4, whereas your version on 
gnu.org is 1.18 or so. 

So, is there a "secret" new place hosting a newer version for Windows? Or is 
the 1.11 on sourceforge actually okay? And - while I am already asking all 
these stupid questions - would that version actually handle larger file sizes 
already? 

Thanks, guys, 

Gerd 

(and I mustn't forget to send a note to c't as well ...)