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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: current@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org
Subject: sysinstall REALLY needs a "reset FTP state" option, or something
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 20:06:15 PST
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I just spent about 15 minutes carefully choosing which distributions to
install, and then said "go".  I came back an hour later, and it was 87%
done with bin.  Another hour later, and it was still 87% done with bin.
The FTP connection had hung somehow.  It's *really* frustrating to have
two choices: stay hung, or reboot.  Is there any way that a control-C while
ftp'ing could allow another option of disconnecting and reconnecting to
the same server?  (Or, even better, a keepalive so that a connection that
hasn't transferred a byte in an hour times out and you get the ftp
reselection menu...)

  Bill