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On Thu, 02 Jan 1997 13:23:46 GMT, jgaa@online.no (Jarle Aase) wrote:
Try WINTEL32 
has ftp telnet dailup and ftp telnet tcp/it as well very good
Dave
>"Petra Lehmann" <lehmann@hypernet.de> wrote:
>
>>Does anybody knows a ftp-programm, which continous a download which stopped
>>at the middle of the download?
>
>>For example: file is 11 MB - the provider cuts the connection after every 3
>>MB?
>
>The REST command is part of the FTP specs. However - according to the
>RFC it require use of BLOCK or COMPRESS mode to work. Neither UNIX
>ftpd, wu-ftpd, War-FTPd or any other FTP server that I know of support
>these modes, and I have never seen a FTP client that asks the server
>to use them.
>
>  RFC 959 sect. 3.5.  ERROR RECOVERY AND RESTART
>
>  The restart procedure is defined only for the block and compressed
>  modes of data transfer.  It requires the sender of data to insert
>  a special marker code in the data stream with some marker
>  information.  The marker information has meaning only to the
>  sender, but must consist of printable characters in the default or
>  negotiated language of the control connection (ASCII or EBCDIC).
>
>That was the bad news :-)
>
>Most (all?) modern FTP servers support the REST command by simply
>using a byte offset in stead of the "marker" the RFC describes. This
>"feature" require about 10 - 50 lines of c code in a FTP program. In
>other words - if you use a FTP client that _dont_ support this -
>you're using the wrong FTP client!
>
>The _best_ ftp client I've used on Windows95/NT is ncftp.exe This is a
>32 bit command line program (looks very primitive at first sight), but
>it is packed with useful features, including resume.
>
>Jarle
>
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>Jarle Aase                      email: jgaa@online.no
>Author of freeware.             http://www.jgaa.com
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