Re: NS 4.04 and downloading files.

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From: Melvin Klassen
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:00

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On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 02:16:58, Paul Coen <pcoen@drunivac.drew.edu> 
wrote:

> lhadley@nospam.net wrote:
> > Hell, I'd like to see how to do this with Netscape 4.51 (W95), which purportedly supports this...
> 
> The creepy thing is I've had the OS/2 version do this -- but only
> if it was the connection that failed, not if Netscape crashed.
> Anyway, does anyone know if this is documented anywhere?

Of course, it's documented.  If you are using 'TCP/IP', the 'TCP' 
is an abbreviation for 'TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL'.

TCP ensures that any temporary "breaks" in a connection 
do not cause any problems -- it checks that all the IP-packets
which were sent were actually received, 
and asks for retransmission for any "missing"  packets.

It was designed by the military as a "robust" protocol -- drop
a bomb on it, and you may locally damage it, but the rest of
the "network" will continue to function, by rerouting IP-packets
through alternate paths, and by using TCP to assure data-integrity.

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From: Klassen@UVic.CA (Melvin Klassen)
Subject: Re: NS 4.04 and downloading files.
Date: 1999/04/20
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