Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 22:46:48 -0500 (EST) From: "Norman C. Rice, Jr." <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> To: "Daniel \"the Bruce\" Keller" <dkeller@psln.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: switching terminals once logged in Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971116223856.22293A-100000@emu.sourcee.com> In-Reply-To: <01bcf308$dd172220$813d9bce@g6-200>
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A couple of things come to mind. You can use ftp's reget command to pick up where the aborted transfer left off. You could also use FreeBSD's fetch(1) command to get the file(s) in combination with nohup(1). Regards, Norm On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Daniel "the Bruce" Keller wrote: > Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 19:28:25 -0800 > From: Daniel "the Bruce" Keller <dkeller@psln.com> > To: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Subject: switching terminals once logged in > > Hi, > This is not a strictly FreeBSD question, more of a general Unix question, > but I hope you can help anyway: > I am trying to transfer a large set of files to my computer. sense I only > have a 28.8 connection to the internet I usually Telnet into my ISP's > server, use ftp to download the files to it, then download them from there > to my computer, these seems to speed up the transfer time quite a bit. > sometimes when I am telneted into my ISP I get disconnected from the > internet. If I immediately dial back into my ISP and telnet back to it I can > see that I am still logged in on whatever terminal I was on before, but > after a few minutes that connection is terminated, is there anyway I can > switch back to this terminal so I can continue downloading? Also is there > any way I can start a process (e.g. a ftp transfer) then disconnect and have > it continue executing? > Thanks, any help would be greatly appreciated! > Daniel Keller > >
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