Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:08:55 +1030 From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org> To: Brian Astill <brian.astill@flinders.edu.au> Cc: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp resume and mail organiser. Message-ID: <20001210180855.G75307@atdot.dotat.org> In-Reply-To: <00121015034003.06862@PhD_1.testname.com.au>; from brian.astill@flinders.edu.au on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 02:56:22PM %2B1030 References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012091403030.5032-100000@muddy.trilobytes.com.au> <00121015034003.06862@PhD_1.testname.com.au>
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On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 02:56:22PM +1030, Brian Astill wrote:
> Could anyone point me to a utility such as GetRight (from a silly
> foreign OS) which will resume a stalled download ? I have twice
> attenpted a 16M download and got to 94% on the second occasion before
> the line dropped out and I lost the lot. :-(
Oops.
The standard command-line ftp client supports this: Use the "reget"
command instead of "get" to resume an aborted download; It'll pick
up from whereever the file on your disk leaves off.
- mark
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