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| author |   Jostein Berntsen | 2018-10-03 12:32:29 +0200 |
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| committer |   Willy Sudiarto Raharjo | 2018-10-06 02:25:17 +0200 |
| commit | 48fce7e2564ac3ee52c55b8d8af6b05eb8652a66 (patch) | |
| tree | a7ce1467074a2aca11da471abb685f38d51e0a0e /network/axel/README | |
| parent | fa73198d2529dc2472460e722db4402c1df6d481 (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-48fce7e2564ac3ee52c55b8d8af6b05eb8652a66.tar.gz | |
network/axel: Updated for version 2.16.1 + new maintainer.
Signed-off-by: David Spencer <idlemoor@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/network/axel/README b/network/axel/README index e3133b8dd2..a1f6e0a8e7 100644 --- a/network/axel/README +++ b/network/axel/README @@ -1,4 +1,7 @@ -Axel tries to accelerate HTTP/FTP downloading process by using multiple +Axel accelerates the HTTP/FTP downloading process by using multiple connections for one file. It can use multiple mirrors for a download. Axel has no dependencies and is lightweight, so it might be useful as a wget -clone on byte-critical systems. +clone on byte-critical systems. Axel is the perfect utility for those +connections to wherever you are downloading from that may have a limit +on ftp stream speeds, http sessions that burst and slow down, or servers +with a slow connection. |