From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 13 18:33:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD6537B406 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:33:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arpa.com (arpa.com [199.245.173.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 171E043ECF for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:33:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wd@arpa.com) Received: by arpa.com (Postfix, from userid 102) id 2CD5E1236; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:33:27 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:33:27 -0500 From: Chip Norkus To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do I ftp a large file ? Message-ID: <20021014013327.GB29969@arpa.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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