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To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
cc: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr>,
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Subject: Re: 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:52:23 PDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:44:13 -0700
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>On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
>
>> hello,
>> I am trying to download 2.2.7 Release as tar archive from
>> ftp.freebsd.org
>> I wonder something...
>> if something happens and the connection wents of...
>> or something like that
>> then may I continue download? or should I start from the beginning?
>
>I don't think you can do this with on-the-fly archives.  David?
>
>No you know why we *split* the archives....!!

   Right, if get dir.tar, then you can't resume the failed download.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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