>>>>> "CK" == Cornelius Krasel <krasel at wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de> writes:
CK> Peter Kulmburg (kulmburg at AUG.UKL.UNI-FREIBURG.DE) wrote:
>> it is more and more difficult to get files over the net. Very
>> often loading will start but not continue until the file is
>> completely transmitted.
CK> I don't think that it is possible with the current ftp
CK> server/client software to just fetch parts of files.
NcFtp, a UNIX ftp client optimized for annonymous ftp will skip over
the start of files which have been partially transferred. It also has
a command line mode which makes it great for scheduling automated
transfers at night.
You can get it from:
ftp://ftp.probe.net/pub/ncftp/ncftp.tgz
and a typical batch command would look like
$ at 3am
at> ncftp ftp://ftp.probe.net/pub/ncftp/ncftp.tgz
at> ^D
job 123456 at Tue Apr 2 03:00:00 1996
It's real nice.
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Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga humberto at momo.uthscsa.edu
Cellular & Structural Biology http://momo.uthscsa.edu/~humberto/
