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Date:      Wed, 8 Mar 2000 16:24:35 +0100
From:      Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To:        Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu>
Cc:        Martin Cracauer <cracauer@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/fetch fetch.h ftp.c http.c main.c
Message-ID:  <20000308162435.A13464@cons.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000308092014.A75180@fisicc-ufm.edu>; from obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu on Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 09:20:14AM -0600
References:  <200003081302.FAA18063@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000308092014.A75180@fisicc-ufm.edu>

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In <20000308092014.A75180@fisicc-ufm.edu>, Oscar Bonilla wrote: 
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 05:02:12AM -0800, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> > cracauer    2000/03/08 05:02:12 PST
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     usr.bin/fetch        fetch.h ftp.c http.c main.c 
> >   Log:
> >   Print a warning and exit with != 0 when at least one downloaded file
> >   is shorter than previously announced by the server.
>
> could we add a retry flag that keeps trying until the downloaded
> file has the same size as announced by the server? it'd be really
> useful for very lossy channels.

Good idea. This (or another) flag could also try different
combinations of -b an -t automatically.

Suggestion noted, I plan to clean up the counting mechanism after the
release.

Martin
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