Re: Star Office

[zelinsky@us.net (David S. Zelinsky)]

Dave Swegen <dave@recursive.prestel.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 10:39 -0400, Frankay666@aol.com wrote:
>
> > So star office 4/5 can be downloaded for free for non-commercial use? well
> > thats very nice of them, but how many people are going to be prepared to wait
> > through a 50Mb download?
> > Has anybody broken it up into 1MB pieces that can be downloaded gradually, or
> > has anybody got it on CD that they can lend me? (UK address)
> > 
> 
> One alternative is to use ncftp's forced continuation function. Start
> dowloading huge file, press CTRL-C when you want to stop, and whenever you
> want to continue the download just use 'get -C <filename>'. Just make
> sure you don't delete the semi-downloaded file.

>From the ftp man page (the one in netstd, not ncftp):

     reget remote-file [local-file]
                 Reget acts like get, except that if local-file exists and is
                 smaller than remote-file, local-file is presumed to be a par-
                 tially transferred copy of remote-file and the transfer is
                 continued from the apparent point of failure.  If local-file
                 does not exist ftp won't fetch the file.  This command is
                 useful when transferring very large files over networks that
                 are prone to dropping connections.

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David Zelinsky
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