from Hrvoje Niksic:

> >>  break timestamping,
> >
> >    How so?
> 
> By changing file size, which will appear different than what is
> reported by the server and will cause the file to always be downloaded
> due to size mismatch.

   Ah, yes.  As I live in an environment (VMS) which maintains disk
block counts instead of byte counts, I'd gotten into the habit of
thinking of "timestamping" as involving time stamps, rather tnan time
stamps _and_ file sizes.  (A better name would have been better.)

   At least with the ASCII FTP line-ending fix confined to the
VMS-adapted code, there seems to be little danger of contaminating the
main development code with it.

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