ftp in background?

[skidrow at ceres.ucsc.edu]

masticol at athos.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) writes:


>I would like to ftp in several files from a remote site (using
>anonymous ftp). The site is busy during most daylight hours, and even
>when I can connect, the connection has been unreliable. Is there any
>utility that can transfer files in background, and will retry on a
>broken or uncompleted connection?

>Thanks for your help,
>- Steve (masticol at athos.rutgers.edu)

	Annette DeSchon has written a background FTP utility (BFTP)
	which you can use to repeatedly attempt to copy files over
	the net.  BFTP features session logging to record errors,
	verification of transfer parameters prior to copying, and
	many other useful features.

	Really handy for connecting to ftp-servers in obscure foreign
	places, or overloaded servers with time/user limits.

	Available at gatekeeper.dec.com (pub/net) and most other
	PD-sites.  There's an RFC that covers it.

						- Gary M. Lin
						skidrow at ceres.ucsc.edu