"Axel tries to accelerate 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.
Wilmer van der Gaast is the upstream author of Axel. Y Giridhar Appaji Nag and Philipp Hagemeister are the current maintainers. See the original upstream page.
Axel SCM: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/axel/
WebSVN: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/axel
ViewSVN: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/axel"
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