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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 1996 12:41:58 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>
Cc:        jhs@freebsd.org, paul@netcraft.co.uk, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ctm-cvs 
Message-ID:  <733.821792518@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:21:32 GMT." <199601161021.KAA14000@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> 

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> In reply to Julian H. Stacey who said
> > 
> > The alternative is of course to use ncftp in append mode, but I've never 
> > done that, & would tend to distrust a core dumping program to leave a nice 
> > uncorrupted tail on a prematurely truncated file,
> > I suggest if you go the append route, you keep a careful note of your first
> > ls -l size, just in case you need to fall back on dd :-)
> 
> ftp's reget came to my rescue and it worked fine. I now have the big 
> delta down, yippee. Next weekend I may finally get -current again :-)
> 
> ppp core dumping worries me though....

I went though it to see if I could find anything, and long chat scripts
(40 or more elements) were the only obvious cause I could see...

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