John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There's no way to ask a
> web server for a portion of a file; you just have to read through it
> from the beginning.
As a matter of fact you can ask a web server for a portion of a file,
according to recent versions of HTTP (see RFC 2616, search for `range
unit'). Of course the HTTP server needs to play along. Also it seems
that for ABC it might be more trouble than it's worth, since you would
have to remember the exact position of each tune in the file, and if
the file maintainer adds a few bytes at the beginning everything goes
south until the next time your indexer looks at the file.
Anselm
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Anselm Lingnau .......................................... [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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But I dream things that never were, and say `Why not?' -- G. B. Shaw
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