On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:51:14PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > 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?
No. For my current download, I found a mirror that also offers rsync (although it doesn't advertise it). However, lots of things are available via FTP that aren't available any other way. > > 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. mc can't resume; it only wants to overwrite, append, or cancel. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
