puf - Parallel URL fetcher

What is puf?

puf is a download tool for UNIX-like systems. You may use it to download single files or to mirror entire servers. It is similar to GNU wget (and has a partly compatible command line), but has the ability to do many downloads in parallel. This is very interesting, if you have a high-bandwidth internet connection. See README for details (not very informative at the moment).
This program is based on puf v0.1.x by Anders Gavare.

Obtaining

download, tar xzf ..., ./configure, make, su root -c "make install", run & have fun.
Note, that it is probably a good idea to use GNU make, which is often installed as gmake on systems where GNU make is not the default make, e.g., on *BSD systems.
If you are lame, you can also use rpm -ta puf-*.tar.gz && rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/puf*.rpm on some Linux systems. :-)

Changelog
See ChangeLog for full list

Bugs

Currently no bugs are known (only special features :)).

Don't hesitate to report bugs. I want to know about them! Please always tell me the complete command line you used, the output of "puf -d 255 -vvv <your original command line>", the output of "ldd `which puf`", the output of "uname -a" and a gdb backtrace (for segfaults) when reporting a bug.

Someday to come

ToDo

Thanks go to:

Anders Gavare for starting the puf project
Mike Mindel from Wordtracker for generously sponsoring my work on puf

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