Re: [make fetch] is useless

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> whether or not the merits of your idea are good, it is possible to

[snip nices stuffies]

> 6. figure out some way to not remove files if the transfer is aborted

And a continued filetransfer when the internetconnection is re-connected.

> Hope this helps. I'm sure others will have opinions on how sane of an idea

Agree. I expericenced the same thing. ftp is especially weak when network latency and bandwith is low. I usually use wget ( -c --passive options) and ncftp, those works better under my conditions (analog modem - 56 Kb, priced by connection time), but have not lost any connections. Before - I lost connections, but switched to an another ISP. So you may try an other ISP or fine-tune your ppp.conf?

[my apologize for the english today...]

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