Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 10:39 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > So star office 4/5 can be downloaded for free for non-commercial use? well
> > thats very nice of them, but how many people are going to be prepared to
> > wait
> > through a 50Mb download?
> > Has anybody broken it up into 1MB pieces that can be downloaded gradually,
> > or
> > has anybody got it on CD that they can lend me? (UK address)
> >
>
> One alternative is to use ncftp's forced continuation function. Start
> dowloading huge file, press CTRL-C when you want to stop, and whenever you
> want to continue the download just use 'get -C <filename>'. Just make
> sure you don't delete the semi-downloaded file.
>From the ftp man page (the one in netstd, not ncftp):
reget remote-file [local-file]
Reget acts like get, except that if local-file exists and is
smaller than remote-file, local-file is presumed to be a par-
tially transferred copy of remote-file and the transfer is
continued from the apparent point of failure. If local-file
does not exist ftp won't fetch the file. This command is
useful when transferring very large files over networks that
are prone to dropping connections.
--
David Zelinsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
