Or Botton wrote:
>
> I'm trying to download a very big file using the CLI FTP client
> that is availble as an APM for Arachne.
I don't know what the differences between NCSA FTP and
ARPANET FTP are, but the latter has a command "reget" which goes like
this:
reget remote-file [local-file]
Reget acts like get, except that if local-file exists
and is
smaller than remote-file, local-file is presumed to be
a par-
tially transferred copy of remote-file and the transfer
is
continued from the apparent point of failure. This
command
is useful when transferring very large files over
networks
that are prone to dropping connections.
If that doesn't work in the NCSA, then see below for
what the server sees from the reget command:
Jan 26 23:49:13 localhost ftpd[3376]: FTP LOGIN FROM localhost
[127.0.0.1]
Jan 26 23:49:13 localhost ftpd[3376]: SYST
Jan 26 23:49:16 localhost ftpd[3376]: PORT
Jan 26 23:49:16 localhost ftpd[3376]: LIST
Jan 26 23:49:25 localhost ftpd[3376]: TYPE Image
Jan 26 23:49:25 localhost ftpd[3376]: PORT
Jan 26 23:49:25 localhost ftpd[3376]: RETR windows.jpg
I did a ^C here to interupt transfer. And what's
below is apparently what the "reget" sent.
Jan 26 23:49:34 localhost ftpd[3376]: PORT
Jan 26 23:49:34 localhost ftpd[3376]: REST 0
Jan 26 23:49:34 localhost ftpd[3376]: RETR windows.jpg
Hope that helps.
- Steve
