On Friday February 7 2003 04:06 pm, et wrote:
> On Friday 07 February 2003 04:41 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> > et wrote:
> > >I have just started to try/use "d4x", mainly cause I heard it
> > > resumes downloads. I just had 27% of a iso downloaded, when I
> > > had to restart (had to get some info out of a winfax fax view
> > > file, so I "had" to reboot into win). anyway, when I restarted
> > > d4x, it had saved the info about the ISO file it was
> > > downloading, but it restarted from 0%, and what I want to know
> > > is how do I make sure it resumes and not restarts. I know it
> > > must be right in front of me, but I sure am blind to it.
> >
> > If you are liable to cutoffs be sure to type nt -r in a terminal
> > or else it will not reconnect to the website.kppp takes care of
> > reconnecting toyour isp .
> >
> > Did you "save" the url etc in home directory , sometimes dx4
> > looses your download and you have to have what your downloading
> > saved to make it easy to re-establish again.
> >
> > I don't know why you lost your downloaded file, maybe it didn't
> > find the destination directory where you had your partially
> > downloaded iso and another file of similar name called segments.
> > It is best to periodically back them up before exiting d4x. That
> > way if disaster strikes you don't have
> > to start again.
> >
> > One word of warning be around at the end, cause if you are not it
> > does not exit the completed download well, the reconnect CL goes
> > on trying to re-establish
> > a new connection to your download website and then finds the
> > download completed and after so many attempts resolves the issue
> > by wiping out the entire file.No joke
> > when you have just spent 4 days downloading an iso file.
> >
> > John
>
> heck I could (and did) do all that with gftp, and other than
> throttleing the download speed, I guess I give it a go, but I don't
> like the end problem, I like the way Gftp handled that part. maybe
> I will stick with Gftp
Not all mirrors support resume
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