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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
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Subject: Re: setup.exe bandwidth waste
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 22:09:08 +0100
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lists AT m8y DOT org wrote:
> Since I'm on the mailing list now, might as well ask something that has
> bugged me for some time.
> Far too often, a connection fails at 99% of a huge download (say tetex
doc).
>
> When something like this happens under gentoo, it does a continuation.
>
> Why doesn't setup.exe check the MD5, if fails, try a continuation, then
MD5
> after that as well?

Because no one has written code to make it do that.



Max.


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