Re: lynx-dev Can't retreive the source code

[dickey]

> address@hidden averred (on Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 09:25:30PM -0500): 
> | > But why can't slcc install an ftp daemon that honors REST?  
> |  
> | there's limited resources and the sysadmin doesn't want to give his 
> | boss the impression that we're draining them. 
>  
> Pardon me, but that's totally ridiculous!  If the damn connection 
> would resume a download from the point of interruption, then all those 
> connections I keep making would not start all over from byte 0, and I'd 
> grab a bit more of the file on each of my attempts.  
>  
> Honoring REST would *reduce* the load on that site!!! 

probably - but consider it from the other side:  someone has to find the
program, and install it.  If you can tell how to do that (where/what/how),
then it's a lot further along than complaining that it's not done. 

(Remember we're guests on the machine, and don't provide income).
 
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