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Subject: Re: bin/4172: suggest reconnection option added to fetch
In-Reply-To: <199912170948.BAA17861@freefall.freebsd.org> from "nbm@FreeBSD.org"
 at "Dec 17, 1999 01:48:31 am"
To: nbm@FreeBSD.org
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 08:17:13 -0500 (EST)
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nbm@FreeBSD.org once stated:

=Synopsis: suggest reconnection option added to fetch
=
=State-Changed-From-To: suspended->feedback
=State-Changed-By: nbm
=State-Changed-When: Fri Dec 17 01:47:59 PST 1999
=State-Changed-Why: 
=Isn't this the behaviour of 'fetch -a'?

No, ``-a'' is for "soft failures". It will not retry if the server
died in the middle of the process...

	-mi


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