[X] My Assistant

[stewjack]

I don't know if I am the first or the last person to discover how to do this.

Assuming you run Windows, - are you able to start a download
and later stop it and turn off your computer for the night -
then the next day either resume your download or resume some
other partially completed download?

I can do that. I use a free program called TrueDownloader that
lets me do that. There are other programs, but I am not familiar
with them.

It doesn't actually speed up the download, it just provides you
with more flexibility.

Jack

[ChrisP]

Most sensible FTP clients and servers have been able to resume downloads since the year dot. I don't know (or care) if the ones from Microsoft have caught up with the rest of the world yet.

I find wget (does http and ftp transfers as long as there isn't a robot.txt file preventing the transfer) does most of what I want over an occasionally flaky broadband link.

wget home page

Cheers,
Chris.

[Tom Tamlyn]

Most sensible FTP clients and servers have been able to resume downloads since the year dot.

Since (at least!) z-modem for dial-up. One of the delightful things I discovered around 1991, when I first signed up for a shell account with an ISP, was that the unix command "sz" would initiate a z-modem, resumable download via my ancient dial-up software (Microphone), thanks to a telnet driver included with the Microphone application from a surprisingly early date.

It probably still works, although I've long since switched to using the OS-X terminal application.

TTT (Talking Mac, of course)

This post has been edited by Tom Tamlyn: Aug 17 2007, 04:19 AM