Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] !%&!#^ FTP

Randy Gordon-Gilmore wrote:

> We have a multiple T1 at work, so I can easily download large amounts of
> stuff in the background. So I go to a Redhat mirror site and am 79 MB into
> an FTP download of umpteen little and big files (the whole i386 directory
> tree...) when the Internet connection goes down and I get an error message
> about remote chdir to a nonexistent directory. FTP program crashes. !%&!#^
>
> Is there a particular reason why there isn't a big gzip file of the whole
> distribution? And/or is there a place I can go for such, where I could
> resume a download if necessary?
>
> Thanks,
>

It seems to me that most ftp's will start where they left off on reconnect.

Dave