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From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
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Subject: Re: enhancing ftp/ftpd
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies)
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:55:37 +0200 (SAT)
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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