Andre Pang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 05:07:31PM +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > >> Or, to pick another example, say you want to download the second >> kilobyte of a file: >> >> --range=1025..2048 >> --range=1024..2047 > > I haven't been following that closely, but how are you going to > tell what the user really wants to do if he gives either of those > two statements?
Only one of those statements will be a valid way of downloading the second kilobyte of a file. The question is, which one. The first one assumes the first byte in the file is "1", the second one assumes it's "0". Both are inclusive.
