Hi Sintsov,  

 >> Unfortunattely "help pget" gives no answer on whether it's possible to use
 >> "get -c" on a file, which was partially downloaded with "pget".
 >> I'm afraid a damaged file will be the result, however not sure...
 >> 
 > I believe that Alexander had already explained some time ago that resuming
 > parallel get would be too unreliable feature, can easily cause file data
 > corrpution. I.E. how whould you handle the fact that simultaneous
 > connections can transfer data at different speed? Or, how you have to
 > remember the number of connections opened to resume, otherwise data would
 > be rewritten in wrong places? You should propably have some special "state
 > of download" file to implement this, yet, this file could be
 > occasionally deleted, for example. Simple reget doesn't have these
 > implications.

Thanks for the explanation. In this case I think it could be nice for lftp
to tell me that the file should be deleted. I.e. a warning would help.

Thanks!

-- 
Michael

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