Dave Emory wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:
 DE> On Thursday April 24 1997, David Calafrancesco wrote to Arie
 DE> Rietkerk: 
 AR>> Its terrible to download the _whole_ file AGAIN when the
 AR>> connection suddenly stopped or when it's very busy on the
 AR>> site and you want to complete the download another time....
 DC> Use a real FTP tool instead of a try to be everything to everyone web
 DC> browser. All the good FTP tools support restarts and will keep the
 DC> connection and download going even when you have to redial into the
 DC> network.
 DE> What are the names of the FTP tools that have resume?
FiFTP for one... more important the remote FTP server/daemon has to support 
resume. The others I have used are NcFTP my favorite interactive FTP client, 
and a few of the more esoteric graphical styles. FiFTP deals with mirroring 
and restarts as it was designed from the ground up to deal with situations 
where the connection dropped. NcFTP has always continued a get process 
whenever I had to redial after a modem drop. If I can get back in within five 
minutes I don't seem to have any problems. 
Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.mhv.net
... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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