Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:33:27 -0500 From: Chip Norkus <wd@arpa.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do I ftp a large file ? Message-ID: <20021014013327.GB29969@arpa.com> In-Reply-To: <F1804YxV8E7Au6YzTMn0000b770@hotmail.com> References: <F1804YxV8E7Au6YzTMn0000b770@hotmail.com>
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On Sun Oct 13, 2002; 06:21PM -0700 Firsto Lasto propagated the following: > > Hi, > > I think this message was caught in a mail loop from ... 1996 or something, > because what it says is you have not tested your ftp software with files > larger than 4gigs. > > Obviously this is some joke or something, since these days a 4gig file is > not rare or exceptional or interesting in any way. > > Can someone answer this question with recent info ? Again, I can see how > back in the days of 4.3BSD and SunOS 4 that there would be file size limits > like that, but obviously they would not exist in this modern day and age. > The FTP spec may honestly have limits for file size. I don't know. You could of course try using NFS or "the ghetto netcat method"(tm), which is: recvhost$ nc -l -p 12345 > thefile sendhost$ nc recvhost 12345 < thefile ^C (You need to ^C out of netcat once the file has finished transferring (check the ls output)) This can actually be faster than doing an ftp. ;) (netcat is available in /usr/ports/net/netcat) > thanks! > Good luck! -wd -- chip norkus; unix geek and programmer; wd@arpa.com "question = (to) ? be : !be;" --Shakespeare http://telekinesis.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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