def download(self, localfile: str, remotefile: str, overwrite: bool = True, **kwargs):
      """
      This method downloads a remote file from the SAS servers file system.
      localfile  - path to the local file to create or overwrite
      remotefile - path to remote file tp dpwnload
      overwrite  - overwrite the output file if it exists?
      """
      logf     = ''
      logn     = self._logcnt()
      logcodei = "%put E3969440A681A24088859985" + logn + ";"
      logcodeo = "\nE3969440A681A24088859985" + logn
      logcodeb = logcodeo.encode()

      valid = self._sb.file_info(remotefile, quiet = True)

      if valid is None:
         return {'Success' : False, 
                 'LOG'     : "File "+str(remotefile)+" does not exist."}

      if valid == {}:
         return {'Success' : False, 
                 'LOG'     : "File "+str(remotefile)+" is a directory."}

      if os.path.isdir(localfile):
         locf = localfile + os.sep + remotefile.rpartition(self._sb.hostsep)[2]
      else:
         locf = localfile

      try:
         fd = open(locf, 'wb')
         fd.write(b'write can fail even if open worked, as it turns out')
         fd.close()
         fd = open(locf, 'wb')
      except OSError as e:
         return {'Success' : False, 
                 'LOG'     : "File "+str(locf)+" could not be opened or written to. Error was: "+str(e)}

      code = "filename _sp_updn '"+remotefile+"' recfm=F encoding=binary lrecl=4096;"

      ll = self.submit(code, "text")
      logf  = ll['LOG']

      self.stdin[0].send(b'tom says EOL=DNLOAD                          \n')
      self.stdin[0].send(b'\n'+logcodei.encode()+b'\n'+b'tom says EOL='+logcodeb+b'\n')

      done  = False
      datar = b''
      bail  = False

      while not done:
         while True:
             if os.name == 'nt':
                try:
                   rc = self.pid.wait(0)
                   self.pid = None
                   self._sb.SASpid = None
                   return {'Success' : False, 
                           'LOG'     : "SAS process has terminated unexpectedly. RC from wait was: "+str(rc)}
                except:
                   pass
             else:
                rc = os.waitpid(self.pid, os.WNOHANG)
                if rc[1]:
                    self.pid = None
                    self._sb.SASpid = None
                    return {'Success' : False, 
                            'LOG'     : "SAS process has terminated unexpectedly. RC from wait was: "+str(rc)}

             if bail:
                if datar.count(logcodeb) >= 1:
                   break
             try:
                data = self.stdout[0].recv(4096)
             except (BlockingIOError):
                data = b''

             if len(data) > 0:
                datar += data
                if len(datar) > 8300:
                   fd.write(datar[:8192])
                   datar = datar[8192:]
             else:
                sleep(0.1)
                try:
                   log = self.stderr[0].recv(4096).decode(self.sascfg.encoding, errors='replace')
                except (BlockingIOError):
                   log = b''

                if len(log) > 0:
                   logf += log
                   if logf.count(logcodeo) >= 1:
                      bail = True
         done = True

      fd.write(datar.rpartition(logcodeb)[0])
      fd.flush()
      fd.close()

      self._log += logf
      final = logf.partition(logcodei)
      z = final[0].rpartition(chr(10))
      prev = '%08d' %  (self._log_cnt - 1)
      zz = z[0].rpartition("\nE3969440A681A24088859985" + prev +'\n')
      logd = zz[2].replace(";*\';*\";*/;", '')

      ll = self.submit("filename _sp_updn;", 'text')
      logd += ll['LOG']
      
      return {'Success' : True, 
              'LOG'     : logd}