LYNX-DEV Re: file downloading

[Louis-David Mitterrand]

On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 05:36:31AM -0500, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> > 
> > 980322 Jonathan Bobin discussed:  
> > > if the file someone is downloading already exists (but wasn't completed), 
> > > download it from wherever they stopped, instead of the entire thing 
> > > again: 
> > > Has anyone thought of incorporating what eg  ncftp  already have? 
> >   
> > this is a Long Felt Want (to use a UK 1940s phrase). 
> > can you tell us more about  ncftp  & how it might help, 
> > especially where one can find it? 
> ncftp is an alternative ftp client - you could certainly look & see how
> it does things, but lynx has its own ftp embedded, right?  (so you would
> be adapting rather than incorporating).
> currently:
>       ftp://ftp.ncftp.com/ncftp
> older:
>       http://www.probe.net/pub/ncftp

For ftp also consider lftp
(ftp://ftp.yars.free.net:/pub/software/unix/net/ftp/client/). It's the
pitbull of ftp clients, it's GPL'd, it's actively maintained, has its
mailing list, etc..

For dial-up connections that tend to go down unpredictably lftp is a
godsend.

-- 
Louis-David Mitterrand
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