From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 7 9:35:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46C9E37B718 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:35:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from opal (cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.123.101]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f27HZjo05118; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 12:35:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 12:35:45 -0500 (EST) From: Zhiui Zhang X-Sender: zzhang@opal To: Dan Nelson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ncftp - resume feature In-Reply-To: <20010307111303.A10374@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I can't believe that SunOS 5.7 does not support REST command. I move the file on a FreeBSD box, it seems working (the [R]esume does appear!). One more question, it seems that I can use control+C to abort the transfer, ncftp can still resume (its man page say it does this based on file size) next time I do a get. Is this safe? Thanks, -Zhihui On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message