FTP can do quite a number of things... we don't implement them all
because the "standard" or "required" set of commands is rather small
and support for the extra features is not guaranteed. Within REBOL
right now, you can:
read, write, append to, delete, and rename files
read, make, delete, and rename dirs
I think that's the list. However, the FTP protocol itself has many
other commands that are optionally supported by servers.
There is a command to restart a broken transfer at a specified point,
and a few that can specify the structure of the target file system or
file to be used... I'm not really dure how they get used or how many
servers implement stuff like that.
Append is probably the only thing there you didn't know about. FTP
cannot do any mid-file editing within the protocol... for that you'd
have to transfer the whole file back and forth and do the edit
locally.
It might be neat to implement some way to get that download restart
command worked in but how do you put that info into the URL?
Sterling
> Sterling, in your note to Tim to say that
> append should work, although it would be slow and inefficient.
>
> Is this really true? I didn't think you could modify parts
> of files using FTP. What can FTP really do?
>
> -galt
>
