Re: Who is Cturley2 ??

[apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu (ground.ecn AppleII Librarian)]

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.

  --Steve

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 --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)