Yet another suggestion would be to try 'lftp'. You can kick off multiple
simultaneous downloads, and watch their progress. You can also exit lftp
and it will keep downloading. I'm not sure if you can re-connect to it
once you have left though.
hth
charles
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Kerry Miller wrote:
> I had a brainstorm but it (like so many others...) may not work. I was
> going to download the RH 7.1 iso's, but we've got a pretty slow connection
> so I wanted to do it at night when our traffic was low. I can get into my
> computers at work from home, so what I'd like to do is start downloading
> each of the 4 files, each on a different virtual terminal. Is there a way
> to control the virtual terms from home, like if I'm telnetted in? ( I
> know...use ssh..., but it's the same problem) I can telnet into my box and
> start the download, but when I log out won't it drop the ftp connection?
>
> Alternately, could I start an ftp download and put it in the background
> some way so I could start 3 more downloads? Is there a way to keep the
> download running after I disconnect from my telnet session? Or, is there a
> better way to do it that I don't know about yet? Maybe I'll just have to
> buy the cd's...
buy em anyway!
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