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
