>>Actually not a VFP question - but I need it for VFP. It's more a bet:
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>>is there any way that FTP on a NT server may be persuaded into recognizing FTP crash recovery? I've heard from a local NT guru that NT was designed having perfect connections in mind, and that anything should be downloaded in single bite (including things like SP3 etc).
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>>Now for the spectators with cheaper tickets, is there a possibility that an NT server may have it, and if the answer is positive, where is that animal switched on?
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>>Not that I'm hoping much for an affirmative answer, but if it existed, it would save a few hours of my life. TIA
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>There's probably not a native way for the OS to do it, Dragan (since the capability isn't built in to the FTP spec), but it is possible for an application to recover from an interrupted FTP session.
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>Many decent FTP products have this ability. (I use WS-FTP, tho Netscape Communicator will usually work if you don't otherwise interrupt the session)

I'm using FTPXplorer, which sends the RETR nnnnnnn command to the server, and some servers simply resume from the given offset, but this server replies that "Offset must be 0" and starts from 0. So it actually knows about the offset syntax, but doesn't allow it. It makes me particularly happy when my connection breaks after 140 minutes of download, less than one megabyte before the end ;).