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Subject: RE: [aclug-L] I saw someone talking about a clone for ms office.
From: Carl D Cravens <raven@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 03:02:40 +0000 (GMT)
Reply-to: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, David Carmichael wrote:

> It took me close to 20 hours to get the file 'TAR' downloaded due to dropped
> carriers three times with less than five minutes left to go before I made
> the full download!

ncftp, with file-resume, is your friend.  (And it has a nice interface,
intelligent wildcards, filename completion, etc.  Beats the stock ftp
client hands-down.)  I've been using it for a few years and it's one of
the first utilities I install in a new environment. 
 
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Carl (raven@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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