On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Matthew Toseland wrote:

> other splitfile improvements
>       specifically: can we stream FEC splitfiles? it is certainly
>       possible to stream non-FEC splitfiles, (although we still
>       have to wait for the first block), but if it is FEC...
>       it might take a large number of randomly chosen blocks to
>       generate the first output block. So how do we do this? Any
>       constructive suggestion would be appreciated...

streaming non-FEC splitfiles is definantly not an ideal situation for
normal downloading, because the latter parts of the file will fall off the
network - we need to be getting the blocks in a random order for *all*
splitfiles

        - fish


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