Re: LYNX-DEV http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month1297/msg00031.html

[David Combs]

KERMIT does it -- allow resumed downloads.

But that's because kermit has access (at disk "seek" speeds)
to the ENTIRE file -- so it can via a single seek
get to the middle or 2/3 throuthe thing instantly.

Not so on a download from some OTHER computer, where
you have NO friendly software to communicate with --
so you'd have to READ that entire foreign file across
the file just to get to the point where it stopped
downloading.

What DOES make sense is using a "shell account" isp,
then you download super-fast TO THAT machine, ie
where your shell acct is.  THEN you use something
like KERMIT to download from there to your
machine (slowly, via modem), and for THAT you CAN
resume crashed connection, etc.

> From address@hidden Sun Dec  7 09:35:50 1997
> From: address@hidden
> >
> >                  LYNX-DEV recovery of disrupted downloading
> >     _________________________________________________________________
> >   
> >Please help me continue downloading from where it was interupted, I hope I
> >don't
> >have to start downloading all over again.
> >     _________________________________________________________________
> 
> Wow, what a luxury that would be.  Next thing you know, lynx will allow
> multiple download specifications, rather than one at a time.
>