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Date:      Wed, 22 May 1996 18:09:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jim Dennis <jimd@mistery.mcafee.com>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        kasturi@teil.soft.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Complaint
Message-ID:  <199605230109.SAA11069@mistery.mcafee.com>
In-Reply-To: <199605222115.OAA05048@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at May 22, 96 02:15:45 pm

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	. . .

> Then when you get dropped, use "reget" to restart the download where
> it left off.  You *could* use "reget" on the file as it currently
> sits, without much trouble.

	I'm curious about this last note.  I had never noticed this 
	command before (I got used to ftp using Novell's LAN WorkPlace 
	for DOS which probably didn't support this feature -- or 
	possibly just failed to document it).

	Is this also support in ncftp?  Is it supported in lynx?
	(I suppose it would have to be "transparent" or "interactive"
	since I've never seen them listed in the man pages or help
	files for either of these -- and a quick search on 'reget'
	didn't turn anything up).

	I'm also curious as to whether webservers or clients support
	such a request through http.  A friend of mine mentioned that
	he'd seen something in one of his http access logs that 
	suggested that some client was attemting to specify a byte
	offset into a file (using something like GET foo/bar.gif:xxxx or
	GET foo/bar.gif;xxxx -- I don't remember).

Jim Dennis,
System Administrator,
McAfee Associates
 



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