i just did this very thing, downloading the 54M beast in smaller chunks
over the course of two days. i used ncft in the following little script
to suck it over, continuing where it left off each time.
#!/bin/bash
cp so40sp3_lnx_01.tar.gz so40sp3_lnx_01.tar.gz.save
ncftp -r -d 1 -C narnia.mit.edu:/pub/Office40/01/so40sp3_lnx_01.tar.gz
the -r tells ncftp to retry if the site is busy, the -d 1 tells it to
delay 1 sec each try, and the -C tells it to continue (aka 'reget' in
a normal ftp client). i cp'd the file as a paranoia measure - i'd hate
some glitch to nuke my download.
i called the script 'getit', so i could just type 'getit' to start the
transfer. when i wanted to kill it, i just did a ^\ to nuke the job,
then typed 'getit' again to restart the job.
good luck!
On Fri, 29 May 1998, [ISO-8859-1] Jos� Augusto Vasconcellos Neto wrote:
>
> Now I have the same problem that Matthew. I want to download Star
> Office (52MB!?) and my modem is 14.4. I tested all of the mirrors
> and the best performance I achieve is 830 cps (well, ~ 21 hours of
> FTP conection!).
>
> Seeking in the list archive I've found this old message on the same
> topic, that remains unanswered.
>
> Are there any program, command or trick for download a big file in
> small pieces (one at a night, for example)? Or are there any way
> to resume an interrupted ftp session?
>
> I heard that exists a program to windows (getright) that do this.
> But I don't want to use windows. I use Linux 2.0 (Slackware)
> and ncftp, but I am not an expert.
>
> Any comment or sugestion will be well apreciated. Thanks.
>
>
> On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Matthew R Price wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of a compressed archive of Star Office 4 that I could
> > FTP? The 49Mb tar is a little too big for my 14.4 modem to handle (yes,
> > a faster modem /could/ be a valid solution :-).
> >
> > Thanx
> > Matthew
> >
> > "One World, One Web, One Program"
> > Microsoft Promotional Ad
> >
> > "Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Fuehrer"
> > Adolf Hitler
> >
>
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