On Friday, November 22, 2002 6:21 PM, Adam Bower wrote:
Ian Douglas wrote:
Are there any tips and techniques more experienced ALUGers would like to share to help me download this large file successfully?
wget ftp://foo.bar.example/mylarge.iso and if the connection drops you can resume by using wget -c
Thanks Adam, and indeed to everyone else who pointed out this command. I guess simple commands like this are elementary to most of you but I was very pleased to discover it and notice that it was already installed on my system. Also, thankfully, it's command line is simple enough even for an idiot like me to understand, so I gave it a go and it worked perfectly, resuming a previously crashed download without problems.
Thanks again to everyone for your help,
Ian.