On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:44:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As I'm still pretty new to this, could you answer this question.... does > turning the timer off for ascii when get-ting a file possibly cause any > side effects? Is there a possibility that while in get, lftp gets stuck > trying to flush the buffer or is something like the pretty rare? As > binary transfers still abide by the timer, it seems they are still > useful.
The timer makes sure that lftp does not write out data in small portions, as it decreases performance, but it still outputs small portion of the data when the timer expires. In case of ascii transfer lftp outputs the data line-by-line and thus the times makes no sense. -- Alexander.
