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Date:      Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:31:49 +0100
From:      Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/fetch fetch.c 
Message-ID:  <200408161031.i7GAVnhQ093973@grimreaper.grondar.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:16:50 %2B0200." <xzp1xi7mlpp.fsf@dwp.des.no> 

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=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= writes:
> Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> > If you are fetching something (usually happens with "make fetch" in
> > ports/), and there is a line outage (happens on my ISDN line sometimes,
> > fetch does not recover. The progress meter freezes on wherever it was
> > and fetch stops doing anything. A ^C breaks out of it, but that obviously
> > messes up a big fetch :-).
> 
> 'man fetch', look for the -T option.

I saw that; but how come "ftp ${URL}" works through "normal" network short
outages where "fetch ${URL}" does not? Hanging rather than failing seems 
wrong to me.

M
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Mark Murray
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