>>>>> "mj" == Michael Jinks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
mj> David Taylor wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to ftp a large file from a remote server in portions?
>> I'm asking this because I keep trying to download StarOffice (4 times
>> I've tried). Always, at sometime during the download, I get cutoff...
>> connection drops out, errors, etc...
>>
>> I want to able to download it a few megabytes at a time. Any solutions?
mj> I think that ncftp might be what you're looking for. I keep meaning to
mj> look into it myself. . . rpm available on RH cd, I think, or from the
mj> main distro section of the ftp site.
Ncftp is you best bet for this since even though your connection drops
if you restart the connection it will resume the download from where
it stopped.
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