On Fri, 4 Oct 1996 19:11:34 GMT, Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com> wrote:

>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.

You apparently haven't used a decent implementation of zmodem, which
(last I knew) was the most commonly used transfer protocol in use by
users of comm programs and BBSes. It is explicitly capable of resuming
transfers that were interrupted partway through.