Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:55:37 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: enhancing ftp/ftpd Message-ID: <199508301455.QAA02069@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199508301501.RAA17290@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at Aug 30, 95 05:01:19 pm
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> > Ever worried about getting a larger file halfway and the transfer > got aborted? Maybe you Americans with your information highway > get better ftp transfer rates but here we have miserable ftp > rates during the business hours since everyone is clicking > around in web browsers. > > I wonder if anyone tried to amend ftp/ftpd in a way that it > gets the 'rest of the file' if a file of the same name exists > and the checksum up to the local bytecount matches the remote > file. In that case the transfer could resume and append to > the existing local file. > > Any comments? > The reget command in ftp will get the rest of a file. It won't do a checksum though. -- John Hay -- jhay@mikom.csir.co.za
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