On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 10:39 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> So star office 4/5 can be downloaded for free for non-commercial use? well
> thats very nice of them, but how many people are going to be prepared to wait
> through a 50Mb download?
> Has anybody broken it up into 1MB pieces that can be downloaded gradually, or
> has anybody got it on CD that they can lend me? (UK address)
>
One alternative is to use ncftp's forced continuation function. Start
dowloading huge file, press CTRL-C when you want to stop, and whenever you
want to continue the download just use 'get -C <filename>'. Just make
sure you don't delete the semi-downloaded file.
Cheers
Dave
