[ale] Downloading multiple files at once

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> On Monday 10 May 2004 19:55, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>Trey Sizemore wrote:
>>
>>>When I use gFTP or other such programs, I notice that if I select
>>>several files to transfer/download, it downloads one, finishes, then
>>>starts the next.  Is there a way to download several at once, or is this
>>>a limit of the FTP site (allowing simultaneous connections)?
>>
>>I do this all the time, by way of Mozilla.  Did it twice today, 
>>downloading a total of 8 iso images, 4 at a time.
>>
>>You should be able to do the same with most any graphical browser. I 
>>assume gftp is graphical, but have no experience with it.  I've also 
>>downloaded multiple files at the same time via separate term windows, 
>>multiple incidents of ncftp.
>>Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
> 
> 
> I tried to download today too, but this is all wrong, right?
> 
> user at computer:/z> cat SuSE-9.1-iso.disk1.md5
> 017e6e625e1cecaf95c3c8ffc40fdf1c  SuSE-9.1-iso.disk1
> user at computer:/z> md5sum SuSE-9.1--1.iso
> 76a51a66c0f099919beeb187daefd382  SuSE-9.1--1.iso

How did you download them?  If you used a command line ftp, it's 
possible you were not in binary mode.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft