>Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:59:25 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Curt Sampson <curt@portal.ca>
>
>On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Markus Illenseer wrote:

>>  The other thing is, that a CD is perfect for BBS-use this way.  Let that
>> be BBS or ftp-server, just mount the CD and there you go (even though one
>> might think, it will be better to copy the CD onto hard drive, because
>> CD-ROM drives tend to be slow and costy).
>
>I don't find this argument convincing. First, even over a 28.8K
>modem I find it easier to download one 8MB base12.tar.gz than 35
>individual 240K files.

(actually, they're 360K files.)

I disagree.  Most file transfer protocols cannot recover if they are
interrupted in the middle of a file; so even if you've downloaded
7.999 MB of the 8 MB you have to throw it away and download all 8 MB
again.  FTP and (more recently) Kermit are exceptions.
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