From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 21 13:00:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA27486 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:00:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA27423 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:00:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA12871; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:54:22 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:54:22 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: root@isis.dynip.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GetRight Analouge Needed for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199901212012.XAA22134@access2_11.kuniv.edu.kw> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 root@isis.dynip.com wrote: > Hi there, > Of you coming from windows world may be familiar with a program > known as GetRight, and basically it allows fragmented downloads > over the internet ftp sites (servers that allow this), so a poor > user can download a 30 MB file over an unstable connection that > may blow up in his face anytime. > > My questions is there any program for unix (FreeBSD) that can > do fragmented ftp downloads ? any help is GREATLY appreciated. The standard ftp(1) will do this if you issue `reget'. Check out the reget options for fetch(1) as well. The reget ability for ftp has been around for a long, LONG time. Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." - Gary Larson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message