> I've noticed something interesting in COmmunicator 4.x for Linux: > Whenever I do download in Netscape, and my ppp link dies in the middle of > it, the download does not break. It just sits there, stalled. Resuming > connection to my ISP resumes the download. No need for any special tools > to put files together from pieces, nothing. This is not a netscape special - it applies to anything. A ppp problem *is* just a delay. Programs can decide to time out or keep waiting, but there is no way they can know wheter it is a slow server or a temporary hung-up phone line. This is how networking in unix work - and it's nice. :-)
> Doesnt happen in Windows, though. Undocumented feature? Just programmer > being nice to us, Linux folks? Boneheaded mistake? Yet another case of bad implementation in windows. Helge Hafting
