Re: Package splitting and MSDOS names conversion

[Carl V Streeter <streeter@cae.wisc.edu>]

Kai Henningsen writes:
> 
> What *should* happen is this: mirror detects a transfer aborting, and  
> saves the .in. file with the date of the file wanted. When it starts  
> again, it sees that the date matches, and does a REGET.

I'd love it to do that.  I've just never seen it happen in practice ;)

> Unfortunately, this mechanism seems rather fragile, i.e. it often doesn't  
> work. However, I've seen it work occasionally. Probably more debugging  
> needed.

Hey.  I'd certainly be happy if it suddenly started working... ;)

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