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Article #15449Re: KA9Q FTP: no 'reget' command
From: Malcolm Muir
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 00:00
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Philip McNab (philip@siberia.demon.co.uk) wrote: > In article <814815612.24095@thokk.demon.co.uk> > Malcolm@demon.net "Malcolm Muir" writes: > > 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. > > 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. > Isn't that the reason for the existence of a slightly cut-down version > of KA9Q? To help the poor folks with the RAM famine? It is. The inbuilt BBS server and a few other minor options are missing from the small version. > Perhaps RGET and some of the other functions could be restricted to > the 'full' version. The full version is already tight for a lot of people. Most DOS users these days seem to run at about 580k free ram. -- Malcolm S. Muir Sunderland England
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb525,fafbb826987509cd X-Google-Attributes: gidfb525,public From: malcolm@thokk.demon.co.uk (Malcolm Muir) Subject: Re: KA9Q FTP: no 'reget' command Date: 1995/10/28 Message-ID: <814871928.5033@thokk.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 118266376 x-nntp-posting-host: thokk.demon.co.uk references: <814800732snz@siberia.demon.co.uk> <814815612.24095@thokk.demon.co.uk> <814838683snz@siberia.demon.co.uk> organization: Demon Internet Ltd. reply-to: Malcolm@demon.net newsgroups: demon.ip.support.pc