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Re: KA9Q FTP: no 'reget' command

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From: Malcolm Muir
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 00:00
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Philip McNab (philip@siberia.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> KA9Q's FTP doesn't appear to have a 'reget' (or is it 'rget'?)
> function to allow resumption of aborted downloads.

> Is it hiding there somewhere that I've missed, or is it something
> that Malcolm or someone else might feel like adding at some stage?

No its not hiding. It may come some day, but the problem is the size
of the programme. Anything that will make it bigger, will give
problems to some users who have only 540K memory available.

> It would be a really useful addition...

I don't dispute that ...

-- 
Malcolm S. Muir
Sunderland
England
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Subject: Re: KA9Q FTP: no 'reget' command
Date: 1995/10/27
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