Re: LYNX-DEV file downloading

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> 980322 Jonathan Bobin discussed:  
> > if the file someone is downloading already exists (but wasn't completed), 
> > download it from wherever they stopped, instead of the entire thing again: 
> > Has anyone thought of incorporating what eg  ncftp  already have? 
>   
> this is a Long Felt Want (to use a UK 1940s phrase). 
> can you tell us more about  ncftp  & how it might help, 
> especially where one can find it? 
ncftp is an alternative ftp client - you could certainly look & see how
it does things, but lynx has its own ftp embedded, right?  (so you would
be adapting rather than incorporating).
currently:
        ftp://ftp.ncftp.com/ncftp
older:
        http://www.probe.net/pub/ncftp

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