> <rant> > Have I gone invisible or wot? It's a real p*sser when you go to the > trouble of sorting through your notes, give exactly the required answer > (probably the only current solution), offer to deliver the software, and > *still get ignored*. > </rant>
Hey Steve, come down ;) and give a man a break to do some research before replying. That's why I replied out of order. I do appreciate your answer, but no need for getting a copy from you - if I'm looking at how to download >2GB, chances are I can cope with 2MB :) Thanks for your cvs commands and pointing out that the beta has improvements. I also found a very recent posting by the wget author (http://www.mail-archive.com/wget%40sunsite.dk/msg07726.html) in which he says that 1.9 doesn't support large files, but the 1.10 beta does. There's also a link to a tar of the source. wget 1.10 is by no means the only ftp client which can handle large files. Apart from lftp, at least ncftp{get} (I didn't check this) and curl can do as well. That's if curl -V shows "Largefile" under features. curl -O <singleurl> is the closest to wget. There can be more urls, but then there also need to be at least as many -OOOOOOOOOOs to prevent downloaded data appearing concatenated on stdout (whoever thought that feature to be useful?). lftp -c 'get <singleurl>' works too for >2GB. Thanks Philip for pointing out the multiple steps of putting together several ftp commands and editing/splitting the URL to get a single file. (There's must then also a way to put it into the background.) I'm afraid it's more convoluted (= less user-friendly) to copying a URL with the mouse from a web page, typing nohup wget <middle-click> & <enter> and forgetting about it for a few days. There's no doubt though that lftp is a *very* good interactive ftp client. A tool for each purpose, add personal taste, stir, let stand until set. That's the (no doubt incomplete) summary of possibilities. Perhaps someone else might find it useful too. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
