From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 9 23:34:38 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 23:34:35 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atdot.dotat.org (atdot.dotat.org [150.101.89.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68AD637B400 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 23:34:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from newton@localhost) by atdot.dotat.org (8.11.0/8.9.3) id eBA7cu675803; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:08:56 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from newton) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:08:55 +1030 From: Mark Newton To: Brian Astill Cc: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp resume and mail organiser. Message-ID: <20001210180855.G75307@atdot.dotat.org> References: <00121015034003.06862@PhD_1.testname.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 +1030 X-PGP-Key: http://slash.dotat.org/~newton/pgpkey.txt Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried an internal modem, newton@atdot.dotat.org but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton ----- Voice: +61-4-1620-2223 ------------- Fax: +61-8-82231777 ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message