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Date:      Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:13:03 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ncftp - resume feature
Message-ID:  <20010307111303.A10374@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0103071130340.11191-100000@opal>; from "Zhiui Zhang" on Wed Mar  7 11:52:16 GMT 2001
References:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0103071130340.11191-100000@opal>

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In the last episode (Mar 07), Zhiui Zhang said:
> I tried to download a big file via PPP that has two-hour limit. FTP
> can not do that. So I use ncftp. After the connect is lost, I
> reconnect and run ncftp again to download the same file, but I got:
> 
>         [O]verwrite?  [A]ppend to?  [S]kip?  [N]ew Name?  >
> 
> There is no [R]esume option. How to use/enable this feature? What
> could be wrong?  The version is NcFTP 3.0.0 beta 21.  Thanks.

You can only resume if the remote server supports the "REST" comand. 
Take a look at the tracefiles created in ~/.ncftp/ to see if the remote
end supports it or not.  And upgrade to NcFTP 3.0.2; lots of bugfixes :)

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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