Question : How to Retry With FTP

I have a basic program which transfers data between a Dec Alpha and a PC running Win2000. My problem is that occassionally the FTP operation fails due to network traffic, CPU loading, whatever. Is there some switch or keyword that I can pass to FTP to retry the transfer in the event of a failure? Ideally, I'd like it to take up where it left off.

Thanks!

Answer : How to Retry With FTP

This feature is available on a lot of ftp client apps and some ftp Server apps support this as well. I don't know of an ftp command to accomplish this. In your situation I'm not sure if any of these options are good for you. Hopefully this helps.

Check out WS_FTP here and look at the "automatic retry section" and the "resuming a failed transfer" section.

http://www.ipswitch.com/Support/WS_FTP/guide/wsftpug75/04transfer.html

also check out some of these ftp server apps.

http://lists.gpick.com/pages/FTP_Servers.htm