Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: partial transfer recovery in RFC and OSI protocols Message-ID: Date: 19 Dec 89 17:03:47 GMT References: <8912181942.AA10029@arcturus.mitre.org> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 19 In-reply-to: barns@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG's message of 18 Dec 89 19:42:08 GMT In article <8912181942.AA10029@arcturus.mitre.org> barns@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG writes: There is a different FTP restart scheme by Rick Adams which I have heard will be in 4.4(?). ... it does not try to handle the more difficult cases of operation between divergent systems. That is not the case. His FTP restart scheme relies on the fact that your file is eventually expressed as a stream of octets over the TCP connection. His RESTart command simply says to suppress the first N octets. It is brilliantly simple. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee. A recession now appears more than 2 years away -- John D. Mathon, 4 Oct 1989. I think killing is value-neutral in and of itself. -- Gary Strand, 8 Nov 1989. Liberals run this country, by and large. -- Clayton Cramer, 20 Nov 1989. Shut up and mind your Canadian business, you meddlesome foreigner. -- TK, 23 N.