I have problems using Mac OS X's cURL to do ftp downloads. Apparently something in my firewall is timing out the ftp control connection (or its NAT information) for inactivity while the data connection is active. NcFTP copes with this and completes the download. cURL does not. It just freezes and I have to interrupt it, which the fink scripts interpret as a failure (also cURL fails to write the last block of the file, so restarting the install also fails when untarring). wget also freezes, but at least it finishes writing the file. I installed fink's cURL and it seems to work, although it's not clear whether this is due to the late hour and consequent faster download times. This would be less of a problem if the fink scripts made provision for retrying the download from the point where it left off. But this is not an option; every download begins by removing the existing file. This seems a shame since cURL and wget both have "continue" options. Using wget --verbose I wonder if all those output lines are supposed to appear on one line? If so, it doesn't work in Terminal.app/tcsh. Just my US$.02, John Dalbec
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