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Re: Tarred and Gzipped???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Nielsen)
Mon Oct 28 18:59:12 1996
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:24:54 -0700 (MST)
From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>
Reply-To: nielsen@primenet.com
To: Ian Burrell <iburrell@leland.Stanford.EDU>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <19961028182727.668.qmail@quark.stanford.edu>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Ian Burrell wrote:
> >
> > Downloading lots of files very quickly from sunsite tended to lose the
> > connection for some reason with ncftp. Besides, one big file is easier to
> > play with than lots of little ones.
> >
>
> The solution is not to use sunsite. I always find that it is way too
> busy and slow. The mirrors (I use ftp.cc.gatech.edu frequently) tend
> to be much better. One advantage to FTPing separate files is that you
> can restart it if the connection croaks.
ncftp can retrieve a file from where it stopped, instead of starting over,
similar to what zmodem does, so this isn't all that big a concern.
Bob
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