Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Nov 1998 07:20:57 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Comments on Microsoft Open Source documentA |
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[utterly off topic]
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 01:34:46PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > FTP is dying, the main things that keep it alive are the fact http > daemons are bad at handing out large files, and the fact http clients dont > use byte ranges on broken file transfer retries.
...And the lack of a ncftp-2.x style client with filename completion ...And the lack of standard directory listings
Now if NFS weren't so slow over the phone I'd use that where available. I use NFS almost exclusively for getting files from a mirror (sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk) when at work -- it's just about perfect.
Maybe a cacheing httpfs (with some kind of directory listing) would do the trick.
-- Jamie
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