On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:44:28PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > I'm on dialup and often access the internet via a slow computer by > sshing into my fast computer (which has the modem). > > Right now, if I want to download something like an iso file via ftp > (there being no rsync mirror available), I put the url in a file, e.g.
No torrents either? > 1. After so many interruptions, often there has been an error creep > in and the md5sum doesn't match. Without rsync, I don't know how to fix > a file that is the correct lenght but doesn't match. torrent solves this ... > 3. It would be nice to have a curses interface like mc that lets me > browse to the correct file, then tag the file for downloading which puts > it into the above queue. AFAIK mc can do ftp. I didn't use it much, but it might do most of what you need. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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