Windows NT FTP server (was: Re: [plug] Does anyone know where to get StarOffice 5.0 in smaller chunks than one huge 60mb file?)

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.smileys.net
Wed Dec 2 05:44:58 WST 1998


Colin 't Hart wrote:
> Leon Brooks wrote:
> > Use NCFTP and do get -C to continue your download from where it left
> > off... as long as the FTP server is not Windows NT, because NT doesn't
> > support continuation by default.

> This implies that it is possible to enable continuation. Do you know
> how?

No. It may actually involve replacing the default server, or getting an
add-on for it. From memory, Micro$oft don't call it "continuation" or
anything else recognisable, but have their own term for it.

-- 
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then
a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." 
 -- Charlie Brown, "Peanuts" [Charles Schulz]


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