ftp clients, was: Re: General question about Linux

[Gregory Nowak]

What I don't like about ncftp's background feature is that if you use the mget command to get multiple files, it assumes you have limitted bandwidth, and gets the files one by one, and not simultaneously.
Greg


On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 05:24:17PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> Slackware 8.1 has lftp, but I've never tried it.  However, ncftp usually
> works fine for me especially for background downloading.  You can type
> "bgget file" and it will spool it and you can keep it up until you've
> spooled a complete list of files you want.  Then, when you quit, it will
> start downloading them in the background and won't give up.  It is
> absolutely stubborn about finishing a download.  The only problem I've had
> with Ncftp is that if you use its "page" command to look at a file and
> then quit before reading the entire file, 9 out of 10 times, your
> connection to the server hangs.  I don't know why this is, but it makes
> the command effectively useless.
> 
> 
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