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Date:      Mon, 15 May 2000 22:34:16 -0400
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        chip <chip@wiegand.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ISO Image download problem?
Message-ID:  <20000515223416.D55458@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <00051518271000.02745@chip.wiegand.org>; from chip@wiegand.org on Mon, May 15, 2000 at 06:23:27PM -0700
References:  <00051518271000.02745@chip.wiegand.org>

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On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 06:23:27PM -0700, chip wrote:
> I downloaded the ISO image of 4.0-release today, or tried to. 
> After about 6 hours it was finally down to the last 1 percent, actually
> 8k left, and it quit downloading. When I left work (where I was 
> downloading the file) I just left the download window open in hopes 
> that it would finish sometime. Is this something that others have
> had happen to them? or is it just going to be a failed download
> and 6 hours of wasted time?

Well, any ftp server (and client for that matter) worth a damn
supports the REGET command. You did not say which ftp site you used,
but you should be able to pick up where you left off.

One ominous thing though, I find the command line ftp that comes on
Micro$oft systems hangs at the very end of a get if it downloaded a
binary as ASCII. If that's what happened... you're hosed.

> Also, do I need the checksum file that is in that directory with it?

If you want to do a checksum to verify a non-corrupted download,
yes. If you are not going to bother, no.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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