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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:27 Sep 2000 at 23:33:12
Subject:Re: A QNX Question

Andy Wanless said,

> On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Anthony Prime wrote:

>> If you`re downloading 91mb from a slow server it might be quicker to fly
>> over and pick one up ;)

> I went for the smaller 24 meg download, discovered it was corrupted for
> some reason, after taking hours to download at some stupid speed.

Even worse, the server doesn't support resume. I downloaded 40MB in one
go. Then grabbed another 10MB later before I realised it had started from
scratch.

So I used BatchFTP to copy it to a sensible server and downloaded it
from there :)

Neil



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