Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: > <OT> > > One possibility: Try a native Windows tool. Internet Explorer or the ftp > that comes with Windows might be able to handle it. There are other free > (as in $0, not necessarily OS) possibilities. > > As much as one might like to use open source tools that one is familiar > with, sometimes it may be more practical to use a Windows tool that one has > or can get. > > </OT>
Naturally, I eventually fell back to this option, using Mozilla (which downloaded the file, but told be that I was downloading <negative-number>KB of <negative-number>KB at <negative-number>KB/s . I will be following up on the lftp suggestion for now, and adding examining the possibility of enhancing wget to my todo list. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
