Re: [gentoo-user] checksumming files

[Mick]

On Thursday 04 December 2008, Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf) 
wrote:

> Did you make sure the chunks are transfered in binary mode?

Aha!! Since the split chunks were part of a video file I assumed that it would 
be binary - and I understand that the default type (for tnftp) is binary?

There's more to it:

I use tnftp because it has an unattended feature which suits me nicely.  A 
string like:

sleep 90m ; tnftp -u ftp://<username>:<passwd>@<server_address>/htdocs/path \ 
<files_to_upload>

will login after 90 minutes and upload the file(s) I want (not sure if/how I 
can do this with vanilla ftp).

> BTW, most
> modern FTP clients have a resume option, so there's no need to split.

Yes, tnftp has the 'reget' command but I can't find a 'reput', or 'resume'?  
It also has 'restart':
==============================================================
restart marker
            Restart the immediately following get or put at the indicated
            marker.  On UNIX systems, marker is usually a byte offset
            into the file.
==============================================================

but I am not sure how this works exactly.  Would anyone be clued up on the 
intricacies of tnftp?

Anything else I could try?
-- 
Regards,
Mick