Re: Who is Cturley2 ??

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <8jb4i2$kq$1@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu>,
ground.ecn AppleII Librarian <apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu> wrote:
 
> In article <3958d77c.329275426@news>,
> Jeff Blakeney <CUTblakeney@home.com> wrote:
>>On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:36:54 -0500, Phoenyx <quazar@dcnet2000.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Another benefit for FTP is the ability to resume file transfers.
>>
>>Yes, but both the server and the client need to support this feature
>>if it is to work at all.
>>
>>Personally, I have never resumed an FTP transfer and have no idea if I
>>even have a client that supports this.  Mind you, I've never had an
>>FTP transfer fail that I can recall and I now have a cable modem so
>>the point is kind of moot.  :-)
> 
> Fetch 3.0.1 on the Mac platform supports file transfer resume's IIRC.
> Yeah, FTP is pretty robust so interrupted xfers are rare. :-)
> 
> Why does a cable modem make FTP moot?  FTP by cable modem is a natural
> combination.
 
Cable modems don't make FTP moot, and nobody claimed that.
 
However, cable modems do make FTP crash recovery moot - why?  Because
the FTP transfer will be so fast that it won't matter much if you'll
have to redo an FTP from the start once in a while.  Aslo, because
transfers are so fast, it's much less likely they'll be interrupted.
 
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