How to read partial data from the remote files using downloadTo API?

[aditya81070]

Describe the bug
This is not a bug but rather a question related to working of download API.

I have already checked #58 and understand how can I use passThrough or writeStreams to download the files or simultaneously. I couldn't find any example for reading partial data from a file.

Example code
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  const client = new Client();
  await client.access();
  const files = await client.list('/out');
  const readStream = new Stream.PassThrough();
  await client.downloadTo(transform, `/out/${selectedFile.name}`);
 // how to stop the above operation so it doesn't read complete file. 

Console output
Use client.ftp.verbose = true to log every communication detail. Copy-paste the output of your console here. Make sure to redact IPs, URLs or passwords.

Which version of Node.js are you using?
v21.2.0

Which version of basic-ftp are you using?
^5.0.5

Additional context
Add any other context about the problem here. What FTP server are you using? What environment are you running in?

[paulish]

Yes, need this feature too. I see that I can set the start byte but I see no way to set the end byte as it is possible in fs.createReadStream or s3.GetObject api or mongo GridFS bucket.openDownloadStream api.
I need this feature to properly implement Range http header support for our file service rest api with file/ftp/s3/mongo/... adapters.

I suppose it is possible to somehow wrap destination to stop reading but have not tried yet. At any case it is better to implement in Reader than hacking with Writer.