On 11-Oct-2007, GAIL wrote:
| urlwrite is more than 10 times slower than, e.g., wget:
|
| octave:1> tic ; urlwrite ("ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/README", "README.txt"); t0 = toc ;
| ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/README: 100.0 %
| octave:2> tic ; system("wget -q ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/README") ; t1
= toc ;
| octave:3> disp([t0 t1]) ;
| 191.1800 1.7532
|
| I wonder why. My system is
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| GNU Octave Version 2.9.14
| GNU Octave License: GNU General Public License
| Operating System: Linux 2.4.18-nec3.4p1.045 #1 SMP Mon Apr 9 16:57:17 JST
2007 ia64
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|
| and I'm using libcurl.so.4.
Did you actually check to see whether the file is downloaded
correctly?