[plug] FTP clients

[Richard Meyer]

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 12:05 +0800, Tim Bowden wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 11:28 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> > I never thought of that, somehow. I was trying (for some reason) not to
> > use a browser.
> > 
> > Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm trying to download stuff as large as
> > an iso approximately, so I'd like to be able to resume downloads (I
> > don't know whether this does), so I think I'll try a "dedicated ftp"
> > client.
> 
> For resuming downloads I've never had to go past wget.  It can't browse,
> so at best it's only part of a possible solution.
> 
> Regards,
> Tim

Yep, I was using wget in conjunction with a browser, but there was a
funny in that every time it finished downloading something, it'd
immediately restart the download (which was irritating in the extreme).
I have no idea why it was doing that, though.

Also there are some things I have to download as ascii (actually
translate EBCDIC to ASCII) and others that need to be binary, so I
started looking for alternatives.

-- 
Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. 
William Pitt, 1783

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