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Re: New xfree source...wow!



> I just about have my archive complete (so I can cut a CD) but I need to
> get one more file. The source for the new xfree is 37+ meg which will take
> me somewhere between 10 and 12 hours to download. Since I have only been
> able to stay on-the-air that long once or twice in the past year, I don't
> have much hope for a one shot success.
> I remember someone commenting that there was an ftp client that could
> recover from a broken connection and begin downloading where it left off
> at the break. Can someone point me to this package?

Just use FTP to 'get' as much as you can, then next time do a 'reget' on
the file to continue where it left off.  It's a great feature of the
wu-ftp daemon.
                                             
                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )
                                             
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